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.
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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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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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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 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.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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