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

Alan Watts

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
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
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
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
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
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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