English - Philosopher | January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
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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 ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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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.
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So then, 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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
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Saints need sinners.
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