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.
ALAN WATTSEvery 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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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