Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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 ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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