You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSIn looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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 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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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