The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSTry to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
ALAN WATTSSociety is our extended mind and body.
ALAN WATTSIn reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
ALAN WATTSIf, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSThis is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
ALAN WATTSYou 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.
ALAN WATTSI have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
ALAN WATTSThe relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
ALAN WATTSPeople become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSYou’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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