Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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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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