The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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 more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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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 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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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