People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSWe must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The menu is not the meal.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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