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.
ALAN WATTSYou’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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If, 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.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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The menu is not the meal.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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