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.
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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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.
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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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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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