I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTSTo 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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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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