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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Alan Watts

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
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
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
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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