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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

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Life Misery Spend
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
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
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
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
If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Belief Cling Faith God Let Go
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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