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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.

Alan Watts

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
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
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
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
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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
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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Clash False Purpose Reality Science Truth
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering

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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