Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSHurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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To 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.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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