Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSYou 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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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.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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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 will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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