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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

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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
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
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
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
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
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
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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

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