The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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