Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
ALAN WATTSTomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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 do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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 a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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