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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

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
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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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy

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