You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSThe frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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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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