I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTSReal travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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