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.
ALAN WATTSLike 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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