Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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