I owe my solitude to other people.
ALAN WATTSBelief clings, but faith lets go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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The present is always changing the past.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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 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.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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