People can’t be talked out of illusions.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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 meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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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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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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.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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