You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures …

Alan Watts
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. ✨ Alan Watts (2003). Become what You are, p.29, Shambhala Publications
What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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