We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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People become concerned with being more humble than 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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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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