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.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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Real 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.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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.
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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 past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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