Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSOther people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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The menu is not the meal.
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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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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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