The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSOther 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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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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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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