The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
ALAN WATTSDo not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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The source of all light is in the eye.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.
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Genuine love comes from knowledge, not from a sense of duty or guilt.
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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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