We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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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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You 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.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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