Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSIf the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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