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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.

Alan Watts

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Abandonment Blame Follow Past Present Reverse Situation Thinking
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Alive Arrive Dead Proverb Travel
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 ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Constant Construction Ego Empty Expectation Future Memories Past Reality Regret
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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Bridge Dangerous Insane Life Time
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Achievement Alive Life Panic
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Life Permanent
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Arrangement Deal Experience Hospital Interesting Learning Sick
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself
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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Life Misery Spend
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Action Decision Feeling Follow Happen Voluntary
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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One Liner Reality
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth

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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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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