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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Alan Watts

It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
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
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
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
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Final Play Reach Writing
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
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching

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