Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
ALAN WATTSThe source of all light is in the eye.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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