Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSWe confuse money with actual wealth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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