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

Alan Watts

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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