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Zen and the Beat Way

By Alan Watts

Well, in the same way, all sorts of things that we believe to be real--time, past and future, for instance--exist only conventionally. A person who lives for the future, who (like most of us) makes his happiness dependent upon what is coming in the future, is living within an illusion. - Alan Watts

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Beautiful Minds: What Would Happen If Everyone Truly Believed Everything Is One?

The belief that everything in the universe is part of the same fundamental whole exists throughout many cultures and philosophical, religious, spiritual, and scientific traditions, as captured by the phrase 'all that is.'

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Alan Watts Reconsidered

Watts hammers away at one central idea, essentially the insight of his mystical moments, that all of creation is one. - David Guy

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How to Find Inner Freedom

For many of us on a spiritual path we go back and forth between separate states of consciousness and divine states.

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