Moments Quotes by Alan Watts

17 Moments quotes by Alan Watts

Watts loved to turn ordinary seconds into philosophical playgrounds. Seventeen short excerpts on this page let you taste his playful yet profound take on the now.

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The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're…

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity…

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I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and…

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Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely…

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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You…

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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or…

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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is…

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The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is…

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I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate…

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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…

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There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it…

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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present.…

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We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so…

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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as…

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...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity,…

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

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