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.
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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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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.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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Try 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.
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