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.
ALAN WATTSA 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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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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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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