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.
ALAN WATTSIt’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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To 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.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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