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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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