Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSHuman desire tends to be insatiable.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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