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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

Alan Watts

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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.
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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.

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