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 WATTSThe menu is not the meal.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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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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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 am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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