We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
ALAN WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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