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.
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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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