Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSNormally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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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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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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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