Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.

ALAN WATTS

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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.

Alan Watts

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.

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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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 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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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