Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSYou 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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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