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Alan Watts Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.
reality past concrete
Alan Watts The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
reality negative
Alan Watts Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
reality men ink
Alan Watts But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Alan Watts Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...
reality confusion people
Alan Watts I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag , whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people , and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.
reality sea views
Alan Watts Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
reality definitions purpose
Alan Watts The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality.
confusion becoming awake
Chogyam Trungpa Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
confusion humanity impossible
Bertolt Brecht Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
confusion newton mathematics
Benjamin Haydon Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.
confusion dealing opens people sure whenever
Gail Shearer Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.
confusion let-it-go goes-on
Charles de Lint Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
confusion long unity
Charles Ives An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity
confusion confusing use
Charles Francis Richter Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.
confusion house significant
Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.
confusion determined looked vehicle whether
Sheriff Stankus Whether it was confusion or an oversight, all I know is everything was looked into and investigated and it was determined the vehicle was not stolen.
people everyday passing-away
Charles Dickens You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.