The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSThe past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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 source of all light is in the eye.
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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.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Every 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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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