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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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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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