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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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