The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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