People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSLike 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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 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.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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 and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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The menu is not the meal.
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