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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

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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Bite Inspirational Teeth Try Yourself
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
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Arrive Dance Discover Life Meditation Nusic Play
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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Life Misery Spend
I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Aware
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Music Play Violin
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Deep Fun God Man Serious Suffering
Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Desire Human One Liner
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
Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Duty Genius Guilt Knowledge Love Sense
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Complete Life Play Realize Secret Work
The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Impossible Love Realize Relationship Self Love Yourself
Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Alcohol Conscious Ourselves Philosophy
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Far Telescope Vast

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