There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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