I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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Real 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.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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