The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.
ALAN WATTSIn looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
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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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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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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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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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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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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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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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