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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

Alan Watts

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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
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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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
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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Science System
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
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
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution

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