The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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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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