The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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