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Makes Quotes by Alan Watts
- If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
- It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into…
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
- We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated…
- No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
- The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it…
- Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the…
- Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,…
- If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually…
- Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be…
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