#si

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. ↗

— Alan Watts

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ↗

— Alan Watts

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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. ↗

— Charlie Watts

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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ↗

— Alan Watts

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. ↗

— Alan Watts

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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. ↗

— Alan Watts

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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. ↗

— Alan Watts

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We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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