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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.

Alan Watts

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
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
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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Final Play Reach Writing
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Concern Humble People Spiritual
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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Persistent Philosophy Problem Question Suspect Wrong
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
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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Black Statement Universe World
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
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
The menu is not the meal.
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Food Meal Menu One Liner Philosophy
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
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

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