The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
ALAN WATTSNo 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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The present is always changing the past.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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