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.
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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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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