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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

Alan Watts

The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
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
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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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