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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

Alan Watts

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
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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Black Statement Universe World
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
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
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
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
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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 and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

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