We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
ALAN WATTSGenuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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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.
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The present is always changing the past.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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