In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Quote by Alan Watts

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move...

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding...

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding...

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by...

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to...

I owe my solitude to other people.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not...

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being,...

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Saints need sinners.

Saints need sinners.

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to...

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In...

We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In...

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just...

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in...

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't...

I owe my solitude to other people.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of...

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make...

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make...