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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts

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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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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