The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSWe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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The present is always changing the past.
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