Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although…

Quote by Alan Watts

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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole...

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole...

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

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

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of...

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far...

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an...

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and...

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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...

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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...

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...

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when...

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when...

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

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

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...

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...

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing...

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing...

Saints need sinners.

Saints need sinners.

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,...