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Chaos Quote by Alan Watts

“When we look for things there is nothing but mind,…” quote by Alan Watts — Download Open image

“When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.”

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“The self-conscious feedback mechanism of the cortex allows us the hallucination that we are two souls in one body -a rational soul and an…

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

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

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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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