If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
ALAN WATTSYou are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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 art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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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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