In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
ALAN WATTSThere is no other reality than present reality.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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