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“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
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“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart...”
― Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
― Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.”
― The Essential Alan Watts
― The Essential Alan Watts
Keili’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Keili’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
10,351 books
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5,001 friends
310 books
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109 friends
137 books
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65 friends
500 books
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84 friends
218 books
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119 friends
74 books
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59 friends
337 books
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186 friends
491 books
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30 friends
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Comics, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Literary Fiction, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, and Young-adult
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