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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Watts

I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
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
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown

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