The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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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 source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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