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Alan Watts

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
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
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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Gone Imagination Night Sleep Wake Up
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
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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Actual Aware Awareness Beginning Future Live Past Present Real World
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Attraction Content Inferior Material Package Pleasure Symbol
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Inspirational Learning Scholar Student Try
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
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Aline Clear Deep Inspirational Mud Patience Process Water
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 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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Civilization Meditation People Reality Reason Touch
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Civilization Emotion Example Image Language Private Seldom Society Wisdom
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast

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