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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Alan Watts

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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 past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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