The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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