Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSIn 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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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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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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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