I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
ALAN WATTSLife is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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