Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSI find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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