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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

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Abyss Chase Death Depend Expectation Future Happiness Ourselves
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
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
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Change Dance Inspirational Join Move Reality Sense
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
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
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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Capacity Fear Future Heart Live Love Planning Valid Work
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
There is no other reality than present reality.
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Life Present Reality

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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