When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
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In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it’s all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.
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The present is always changing the past.
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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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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Human desire tends to be insatiable.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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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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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.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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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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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
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