Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSWords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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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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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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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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