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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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