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I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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
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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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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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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Change Inspirational One Liner Past Present
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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