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Alan Watts Quote - What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.

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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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