I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTSThe morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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