"You can't figure out the Universe, especially..." - Quote by Alan Watts
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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“A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts”
“If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the "external" world - -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.”
“Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.”
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“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
“Consider the concepts referred to in the words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', to the elucidation of which innumerable volumes of philosophy have been devoted. We fare no better in our speculations than a fish which should strive to become clear as to what is water.”