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.
ALAN WATTSDo not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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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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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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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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