Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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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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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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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