Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
ALAN WATTSFor there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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