Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
ALAN WATTSThis is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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