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.
ALAN WATTSWe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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