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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Book Consume Currency Eat Life Money Paper Real Scripture Wealth
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
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
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
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
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

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