We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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