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.
ALAN WATTSTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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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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