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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Destruction Hand People Process Realize Same Technology Universe
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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Function Ocean Process Universe Yourself
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Direction Move Philosophy Ready Stay
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Explore Look Philosophy Universe
People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Illusion Judgment One Liner People Talk
The source of all light is in the eye.
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Eyes Light One Liner Reality Source Truth
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Ego Finding Sensation Skin
We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Arise Heat Human Love Natural People Sun Time
I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Happen Maternity Sarcastic
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Deal Freedom Guilt Perfection Worry
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Convention Fatal Forget Serious Thinking
We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Actual Confusion Money One Liner Wealth
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast
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

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