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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave 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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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
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
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water

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