If 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.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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