It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN WATTSReality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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 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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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