Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSTo 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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 present is always changing the past.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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