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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.

Alan Watts

Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Deep Defense Doubt Need One Liner
Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Belief Faith Let Go One Liner
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Ocean Physical Universe Wave
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
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Available Description Indeed Language Notice Reality Words
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
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Discover Finding Imagination Pain Safety Seek
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
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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Clash False Purpose Reality Science 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
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Actual Command Feeling Love Pretend
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
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Delay Hurry Present Resistance Try
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

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