Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
ALAN WATTSA scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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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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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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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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