Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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 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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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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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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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The menu is not the meal.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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No 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.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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