If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The present is always changing the past.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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