People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSIf you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The present is always changing the past.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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