There is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSWe must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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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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