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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Alan Watts

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
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
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
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
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
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
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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