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.
ALAN WATTSLife 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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 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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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