For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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 a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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