Alan Watts: "Never pretend to a love which you do..."

About Alan Watts

Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British and American writer, speaker, and "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience.

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.

—Alan Watts

Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

—Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

—Alan Watts

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

—Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe, and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

—Alan Watts

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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The wise man will love; all others will desire.

—Afranius

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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

—André Maurois

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Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

—Alice Hoffman in Practical Magic

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They were at different places in the same relationship, and like anything that's out of alignment, they were destined to crash sooner or later.

—Jodi Picoult in The Tenth Circle

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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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