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 WATTSTo travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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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 you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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