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.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The 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.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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