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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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.
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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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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 are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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