For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Life 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.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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