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.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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