Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTSWhen we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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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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