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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.

Alan Watts

We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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