Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
ALAN WATTSWhat we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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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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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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