We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
ALAN WATTSFaith is an act of trust in the unknown.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.
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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot.
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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 mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.
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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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