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.
ALAN WATTSTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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