Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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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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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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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.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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