People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSYou are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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