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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
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

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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