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.
ALAN WATTS
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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