It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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