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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan Watts

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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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
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
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend

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