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You 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.

Alan Watts

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
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
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
When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking

You 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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