The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSTechnology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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If 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.
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