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Alan Watts

1915 - 1973

American Writer and Philosopher

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled “philosophical entertainer”, known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had

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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.

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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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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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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.

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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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

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Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience

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