The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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