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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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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
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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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