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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.

Alan Watts

The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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