You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
ALAN WATTSYou are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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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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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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