Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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 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 clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ 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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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