Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSThe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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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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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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