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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
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" The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. "
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" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "
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" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "
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" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "
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" The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. "
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" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "
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" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "
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" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "
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" The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "
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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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" Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. "
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" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "
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" You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. "
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" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "
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" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "
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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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" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "
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" I have realized that 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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" But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. "
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" Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. "
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" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "
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" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "
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" The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. "
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" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "
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" In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. "
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" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "
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" Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. "
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" But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. "
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" The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. "
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