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

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Science System
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Afraid Darkness Finding Love
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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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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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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