Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSIn looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The present is always changing the past.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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