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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Alan Watts

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
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
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
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
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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

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