We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSWe seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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