We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
ALAN WATTSThrough 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.
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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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