Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The menu is not the meal.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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