Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
ALAN WATTSThe 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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The menu is not the meal.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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