If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting 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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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
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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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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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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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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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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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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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