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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.

Alan Watts

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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist 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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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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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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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