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.
ALAN WATTSThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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.
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