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I owe my solitude to other people. - Alan Watts

I owe my solitude to other people. – 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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Live Now
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Alan Watts
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. – Alan Watts

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Faith
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Alan Watts
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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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Meditation
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Other Quotes from
Solitude
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The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. – Marya Mannes

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Solitude

Solitude is a form of meditation. – Terri Guillemets

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Solitude

In solitude, where we are least alone. – George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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Solitude

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. Ones stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Solitude

Random Quotes

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Happiness

There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon. – Alice Meynell

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Nature

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. – Martin Yan

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Happiness

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Experience