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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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsAlan Watts If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
Alan WattsAlan Watts I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
Alan WattsAlan Watts I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
Alan WattsAlan Watts When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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.
Alan WattsAlan Watts The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan WattsAlan Watts 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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