We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
ALAN WATTSNo one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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