I owe my solitude to other people.
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 one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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 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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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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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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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