The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSI am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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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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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.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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