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.
ALAN WATTSThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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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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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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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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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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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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