Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The menu is not the meal.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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