If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
ALAN WATTSWhen we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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