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

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
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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
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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
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
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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World

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

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

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