What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. Alan Watts Quotes
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. 

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Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. 

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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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