Society is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSWe seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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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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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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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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