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.
ALAN WATTSIt’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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