You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSA priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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