Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
ALAN WATTSReal travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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.
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