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.
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 art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality.
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The relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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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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There is no other reality than present reality.
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We confuse money with actual wealth.
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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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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total 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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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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People can’t be talked out of illusions.
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Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present.
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People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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