Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
ALAN WATTSIf we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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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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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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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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