You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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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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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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