When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Through 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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