Human desire tends to be insatiable.
ALAN WATTSI owe my solitude to other people.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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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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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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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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