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Moments Quotes by Alan Watts
- Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
- 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…
- I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was…
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
- Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we…
- We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
- The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to…
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being…
- 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…
- There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.…
- No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
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- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba