Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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 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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