Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSMan suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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