Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or 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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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 are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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If 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
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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The menu is not the meal.
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