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

Alan Watts

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
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
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
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
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
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
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
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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