Only doubtful truths need defense.
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 source of all light is in the eye.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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