Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTSLike 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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