Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
ALAN WATTSIf 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
More Alan Watts Quotes
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
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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.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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No 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.
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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
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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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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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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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We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
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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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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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