Quote by Alan Watts
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. -

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. – Alan Watts

Other quotes by Alan Watts

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. – Alan Watts

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relationship
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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

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Technology
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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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Experience
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. – St.Augustine

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Self-Discovery

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Self-Discovery

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. – William Butler Yeats

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Self-Discovery

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

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Self-Discovery

Random Quotes

Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. – Terri Guillemets

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Hmmm

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. – Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Courage

Keep cool my babies. – Conan OBrien

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cool

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. – Chinese Proverb