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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.

Alan Watts

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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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel
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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Anxiety Dead Each Other Equality Laugh Priest Religion Transformation
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Attitude Aware Environment Immense Learning Mirror Ourselves People Power Social Teaching
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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
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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Ocean Stranger Wave World
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
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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Action Expression Individual Leaving Nature Ocean People Process Unique Universe Waves World
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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Change Deceive Thinking
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious

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