When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
ALAN WATTSWe know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The present is always changing the past.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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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.
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