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.
ALAN WATTS
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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