People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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