People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSTo 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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 past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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