It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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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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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I owe my solitude to 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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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