Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
ALAN WATTSOne is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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