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Alan Watts Quotes

Alan Watts quotes about learning

English Philosopher January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973

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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment. Alan Watts
Alan Watts quote: "A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of..."
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Alan Watts
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. Alan Watts
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day. Alan Watts

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