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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.

Alan Watts

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
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
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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Adequate Poetry Talk Words
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Obligation Person Philosophy
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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