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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.

Alan Watts

There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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
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
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
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 know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe

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