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.
ALAN WATTSWe 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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Other 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.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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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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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 religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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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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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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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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