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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

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
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
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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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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