Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSWhen we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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