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

Alan Watts

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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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
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
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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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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 menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual

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