The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
ALAN WATTSAlan Watts Quotes
Profession:English writer
Born:January 6, 1915, Chislehurst, U.K
Died:November 16, 1973, CA
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTS