You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSYou’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The present is always changing the past.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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