People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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