Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSYou are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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