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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Ocean Stranger Wave World
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe

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