The present is always changing the past.
ALAN WATTSGenuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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 clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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