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" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
— Alan Watts
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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."
— Alan Watts
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" Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
— Alan Watts
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" You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
— Alan Watts
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" The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless."
— 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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" A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily."
— Alan Watts
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" Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
— Alan Watts
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" I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is."
— Alan Watts
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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
— Alan Watts
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" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
— Alan Watts
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" The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion."
— Alan Watts
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" You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."
— Alan Watts
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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."
— Alan Watts
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"Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences."
— Alan Watts
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" I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium"
— Alan Watts
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" It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way."
— Alan Watts
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" Just as true humour is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself."
— Alan Watts
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" We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree."
— Alan Watts
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