Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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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The menu is not the meal.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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