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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Arrangement Comparison Constellation Look Night Stars Universe
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Abstraction Future Past Reality
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Capable Enjoyment Individual Satisfaction
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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Future Inspirational Night Present Significance
You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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Conscious Glory Listen Magnificant Perceive Universe Witness
The menu is not the meal.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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