The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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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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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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To 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.
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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 we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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To 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.
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