What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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