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

Alan Watts

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
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
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
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
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

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