You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
ALAN WATTSYou and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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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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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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