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.
ALAN WATTSThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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 forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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