Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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