Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
ALAN WATTSYou didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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What 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.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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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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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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