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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The present is always changing the past.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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 art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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