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

Alan Watts

You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching

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