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.
ALAN WATTSThe past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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 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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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