Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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No 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.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The present is always changing the past.
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