Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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