Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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