Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
ALAN WATTSPeople can’t be talked out of illusions.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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