The source of all light is in the eye.
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.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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