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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Final Play Reach Writing
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTS

Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
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

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