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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Alan Watts

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
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go

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