To 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.
ALAN WATTSOur pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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We 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.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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