Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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