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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

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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