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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan Watts

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
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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
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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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
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
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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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
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
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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

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