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

Alan Watts

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Humanity Humor Knowledge Laugh Oneself
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try 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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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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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