The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTSMy death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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Try 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.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The present is always changing the past.
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