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Alan Watts Quote - For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Life 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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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