Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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