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.
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 seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The menu is not the meal.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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