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.
ALAN WATTSThe past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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