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.
ALAN WATTSNo one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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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.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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