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

Alan Watts

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
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
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
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
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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Change Deceive Thinking
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
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
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality

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