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.
ALAN WATTSPeople can’t be talked out of illusions.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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