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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.

Alan Watts

Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real 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
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
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
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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

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