You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
ALAN WATTSStay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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We 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.
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