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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Alan Watts

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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
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
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
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
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
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
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
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
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Connection Life Mouth Move Ocean Reality Separate Source Water
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
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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