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

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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
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
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
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 are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
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
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water

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