The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The menu is not the meal.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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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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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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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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