In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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 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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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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