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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.

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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
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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Black Statement Universe World
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society

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