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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Alan Watts

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
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
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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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk

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