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

Alan Watts

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
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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
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
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
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
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Act Faith One Liner Trust Unknown
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
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

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