The present is always changing the past.
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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My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
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There is no other reality than present reality.
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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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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The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.
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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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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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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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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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Belief clings, but faith lets go.
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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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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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