If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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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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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 didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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