The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSIf happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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In 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.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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