You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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