Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Life 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.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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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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