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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

Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Afraid Darkness Finding Love

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