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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.

Alan Watts

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
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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