Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSWe feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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