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.
ALAN WATTSMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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