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 WATTS
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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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