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Alan Watts Quote - Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Final Play Reach Writing
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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 are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek

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