You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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