Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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