"You find out that the universe is..." - Quote by Alan Watts
You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
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“We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.”
“You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.”
“The destination of life is this eternal moment.”
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“When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.”
“We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.”
“When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.”