Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSJust as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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