The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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