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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Watts

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
The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
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
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
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
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
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

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