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.
ALAN WATTSMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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