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.
ALAN WATTSNothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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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.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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