Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSI find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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