The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
ALAN WATTSThe relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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 that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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