The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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