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.
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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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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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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