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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

If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Endless Future Inspirational Life Present
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Duty God Infinite Religious
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
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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Attempt Avoid Control Deep Exercise Power
The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Frightened Meet Mind Run Seek Terror Want World
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Black Statement Universe World
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
You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Forget Look Reality Universe World
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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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