English - Philosopher | January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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