Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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