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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Alan Watts

I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
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
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
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
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering

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