Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTSA priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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