If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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