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Korea Stitch 05 on Flickr.

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“There is obvi­ously a place in life for a reli­gious atti­tude for awe and aston­ish­ment at exis­tence. That is also a basis for respect for exis­tence. We don’t have much of it in this cul­ture, even though we call it mate­ri­al­is­tic. In this cul­ture we call mate­ri­al­is­tic, today we are of course bent on the total destruc­tion of mate­r­ial and its con­ver­sion into junk and poi­so­nous gases. This is of course not a mate­ri­al­is­tic cul­ture because it has no respect for mate­r­ial. And respect is in turn based on won­der.” — Alan Watts