Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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 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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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