"The meaning and purpose of dancing is the……" — Alan Watts
"The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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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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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure 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…
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
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We usually don't look. We overlook.
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