You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSThe meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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