Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
ALAN WATTSFor there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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 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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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 world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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