We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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