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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.

Alan Watts

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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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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