Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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