There is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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