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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and num

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. – Alan Watts

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