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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Alan Watts

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
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
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
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
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
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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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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