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.
ALAN WATTSYou 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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