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.
ALAN WATTS
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The present is always changing the past.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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