If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
ALAN WATTSThe mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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