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 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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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