You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSNo 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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We 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.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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