I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The present is always changing the past.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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