The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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