The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
ALAN WATTSHospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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