Alan Watts

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Pendidikan

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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Pendidikan

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

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Kehidupan

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent... this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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Kehidupan

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

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Kehidupan

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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Waktu

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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Harapan

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

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Kehidupan

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

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Harapan

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

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Doa

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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Kreativitas

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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Kehidupan

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.

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Kepemimpinan

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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Doa

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

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Doa

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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Doa

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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Kreativitas

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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Harapan

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

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Doa

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

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