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Belief clings, but faith lets go.

Alan Watts

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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