If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
ALAN WATTSThere is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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The present is always changing the past.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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