Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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