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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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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.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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