The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
ALAN WATTSOne is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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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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Society is our extended mind and body.
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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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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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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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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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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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