If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
ALAN WATTSDo not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The menu is not the meal.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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The present is always changing the past.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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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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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 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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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 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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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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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.
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