The reason we have poverty is that we ha...

Imagination Money People

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

- Alan Watts

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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

- Neil Tennant

Other quotes by Alan Watts

Common sense

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

To see the light, it is only necessary to stop dreaming and open the eyes.

- 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

Idea Being

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

- Alan Watts

World

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

- Alan Watts

Future Present Past

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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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

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