Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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