Tag: Alan Watts
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan Watts
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But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan Watts
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts
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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan Watts
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
Alan Watts
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.
Alan Watts