People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSThe present is always changing the past.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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 frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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