The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSThere is no other reality than present reality.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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 morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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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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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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.
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