Only doubtful truths need defense.
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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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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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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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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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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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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