Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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