Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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