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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan Watts

Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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
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
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
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
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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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Final Play Reach Writing
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
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
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

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