Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
ALAN WATTSThrough 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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A 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.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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.
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