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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.

Alan Watts

People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
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
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
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
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
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
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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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go

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