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“Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

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

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall…

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...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

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“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

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On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

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I prefer department stores. In boutiques, they come up and ask you if you need help. I can't get lost in the experience.

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A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now,…

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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

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One of the big first computers was called SAGE, which was a missile defense, the first missile-defense computer, which was, like, one of the…

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Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all…

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Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.

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The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has…

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Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop…

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