Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
ALAN WATTSWe do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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To 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.
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The menu is not the meal.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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