I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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