Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
ALAN WATTSThere is no other reality than present reality.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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