The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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If 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.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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