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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.

Alan Watts

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
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
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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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life 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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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious

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