Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSJesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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