I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The menu is not the meal.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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