The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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 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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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 didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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