Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSYou are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The present is always changing the past.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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