Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSJesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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