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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.
"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."— Alan Watts
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Meaning of this quote
Dance, music, and meditation illustrate activities whose value lies in present participation rather than only in reaching an endpoint.
Key takeaway:
Give attention to the experience itself as well as the result.
Origin of the quote
Meditation, Essential Lectures series.
Who actually said this?
Lecture transcript supports the passage, but sentence joins and the supplied as when wording are edited.
Source:
Meditation — lecture transcript
