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.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The menu is not the meal.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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