My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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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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