There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
ALAN WATTSLife 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete 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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Real 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.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Real 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.
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