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

Alan Watts

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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
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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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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

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

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