You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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