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

Alan Watts

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
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
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown

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