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.
ALAN WATTSIf happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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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