The more a thing is forced to be something, the more it is unable to be anything else.

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."

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"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

- Alan Watts

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"What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously."

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"The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - on such short notice! Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn't allow it."

- The Grinch

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"Embrace each shift in your life like a dragonfly zips through a summer breeze"

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"Like the dragonfly, adapt and conquer your skies with elegance and power"

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