Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
ALAN WATTSWhen 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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