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.
ALAN WATTSProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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The menu is not the meal.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The present is always changing the past.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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