A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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