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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

Alan Watts

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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 source of all light is in the eye.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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 are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.

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