No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTSTrying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
More Alan Watts Quotes
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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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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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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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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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If one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up, now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
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