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Wiggly Universe: An Undivided Entity

Wiggly Universe: An Undivided Entity

The universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game… there is never anything to be gained —through the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Everything is a big wiggle. They wiggle so much and in so many different ways that one can really make out where one wiggle begins and another ends whether it be in space or time.

No matter how much we divide, count, sort, or classify the wiggle into particular things, this is nothing more than a method for thinking about the world; Nothing Is Actually Ever Divided.

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Alan Watts condenses eastern philosophy and spiritual teachings, providing insights in the language that the west understands.

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