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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.

Alan Watts

Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
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
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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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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 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
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
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

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