The menu is not the meal.
ALAN WATTSIf one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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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.
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The present is always changing the past.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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