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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.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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
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
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World

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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