Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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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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