No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
ALAN WATTSThe more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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