The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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 the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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