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.
ALAN WATTSThe morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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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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