Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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