Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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