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

Alan Watts

The 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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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