My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSNormally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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