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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
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
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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
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
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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

Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

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