The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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