My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSIt’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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