Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSThe frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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