Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
ALAN WATTSYou are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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