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.
ALAN WATTSI have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
ALAN WATTSI find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
ALAN WATTSWe confuse money with actual wealth.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
ALAN WATTSIf we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
ALAN WATTSIf happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
ALAN WATTSThe past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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.
ALAN WATTSIn 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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
ALAN WATTSOther people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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.
ALAN WATTSYou 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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
ALAN WATTSNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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