People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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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 clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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