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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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it. ― Alan Wilson 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 Wilson Watts

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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 living in the real world. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Don't confuse schooling with education. I didn't go to Harvard but the people that work for me did. ― Elon Musk

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ― 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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