The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSReality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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