Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSIf, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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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