There is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSA 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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