One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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