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.
ALAN WATTSEvery intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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