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People can’t be talked out of illusions.

Alan Watts

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
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Communication Experience Share Words
For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
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
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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Difficult Fascinate Frustration Individual Intelligence Oneself Wisdom
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
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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