Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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