My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSYou 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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 world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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