Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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