Alan Watts on change
Alan Watts105 quotes“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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Alan WattsAlan Watts Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The present is always changing the past.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The menu is not the meal.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
Alan WattsAlan Watts You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Alan WattsAlan Watts If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsAlan Watts If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
Alan WattsAlan Watts I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Elaine HaysElaine Hays Deep within, I still exist; a brighter, happy me. Just look beyond my outer casing.
Gemma IversenGemma Iversen I’m still learning to love the parts of me you taught me to hate.
Helena DegnHelena Degn It’s both a blessing and a curse to feel so much.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford I like you here, between commas, where the only thing you can break now, is my lines.
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