You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
ALAN WATTSReal 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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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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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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