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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Alan Watts

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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