Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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 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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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