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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

Alan Watts

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
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
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Bloom Giant Glory Heart Life Live Morning
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 and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
I owe my solitude to other people.
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One Liner Owe People Solitude
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering

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