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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
Alan WattsAlan Watts It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
Alan WattsAlan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
Alan WattsAlan Watts One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Society is our extended mind and body.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The menu is not the meal.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan WattsAlan Watts You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Alan WattsAlan Watts If, 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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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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