The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTS
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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 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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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