You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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’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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete 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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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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