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.
ALAN WATTSIf, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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