People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
ALAN WATTSPlaying a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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