The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSWe confuse money with actual wealth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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