Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
ALAN WATTSTry 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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