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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Alan Watts

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Nature System Trust Yourself
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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
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 world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Animal Compassion Love Play World
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Life Live Present
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
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Discover Explore Home Reason Requirement Schedule Stay Surprise Travel

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