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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.

Alan Watts

I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
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
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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
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
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
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
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy

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