Alan Watts ( 10 of 21 )
I owe my solitude to other people.
I owe my solitude to other people.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the read more
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost read more
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. 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.
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying read more
The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones hands. The harder we grip, the more it slips through our fingers.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.rn
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they read more
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what read more
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
