Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSTo have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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