The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSI am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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Other 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.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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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 to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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 and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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