The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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