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Society is our extended mind and body.

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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Death Disappear Particular Pattern Water
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
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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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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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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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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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