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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Alan Watts

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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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