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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Watts
Culture, Illusion, Illusion Of Time

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Alan Watts
Suffering, Culture, Disease

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Alan Watts
Culture, Body, Clock

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Watts
Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Alan Watts
Buddhism, Culture, Loyal
"Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

Alan Watts
Mind, Culture, Way
"The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 90), 1966.

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