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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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God Man Personal Religion Result Savior
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
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
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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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

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