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.
ALAN WATTSGenuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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