The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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