Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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