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
ALAN WATTSLike too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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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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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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