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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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
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
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Existence Future Illusion Past Present Reality

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