We confuse money with actual wealth.
ALAN WATTSThis 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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.
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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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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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 source of all light is in the eye.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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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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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