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.
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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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