Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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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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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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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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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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