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.
ALAN WATTSNo 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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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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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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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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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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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