Belief clings, but faith lets go.
ALAN WATTSNo 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.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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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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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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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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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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