The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
ALAN WATTSThe art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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