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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Life Misery Spend
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
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
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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
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
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
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Advice Existence Expectation Guidance Influence Light Love Principle Room Rule Truth
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself

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