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.
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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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