It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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