Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Like too much alcohol, self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double.
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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