You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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