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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Alan Watts

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
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware

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