The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTSReality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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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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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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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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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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