Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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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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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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