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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

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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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
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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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Concentration Look World
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Alone Certain Deep exchange Isolation Joy Life Live Security Words World
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
Society is our extended mind and body.
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Body Extend Mind One Liner Society
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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Nature System Trust 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
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Eternal Future Life Listen Live Music Present Sake
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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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick

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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