Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSHospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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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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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You 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.
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