The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSNever pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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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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