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.
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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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