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"38 Alan Watts Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 January 1915. Died: 16 November 1973 | Writer |

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Only way Make sense Change Plunge
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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.

Trust yourself Mistrust Underlying Whole system
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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.

Technology Destructive Hands People
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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.

Private thought Emotions Our own Languages
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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.
Function What Whole universe Doing
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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

The more Things Permanent Lifeless
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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.

Have faith Water Swim you Relax
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To have faith is to trust yourself.

Have faith Trust yourself
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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Better Have Short life Long
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We cannot More sensitive Pleasure Pain
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You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Look out God The sky In you
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You don’t look out there, you look in you.
Look out You Look in
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The real you is the whole universe.

Real you Whole universe
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The ego Focus Conscious attention
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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

Meaning Life Be alive So obvious
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Life exists only at this very moment, and at this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever

Life exist Very moment Infinite Eternal
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the Gods made for fun.

Man suffers Take seriously Gods made Fun
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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing

Greater part Human activity Designed Make permanent
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Don’t hurry anything. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about what progress you’re making. Just me entirely content to be aware of what is.

Don't worry The future Progress Making
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

True humor Laughter True humanity Knowledge
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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.

Things Universe At night Comparisons
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

An aperture Universe Looking at Exploring itself
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Attempt Exercise power Someone else Avoid
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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.

More dangerously Insane Time Steel bridge
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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Never pretend Love Feel Command
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Hard indeed Languages available No description
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Society is our extended mind and body.

Society Extended mind Body
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Love is not something that is a sort of rare commodity, everybody has it.

Love Rare commodity Everybody has
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The positive cannot exist without the negative.

The positive Cannot exist The negative
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We notice only what we think noteworthy, and therefore our visions highly selective.

We notice Think noteworthy Visions Highly selective
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Have realized Past Future Illusion
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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences

Words Communicative Between those Share
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”

The attitude Faith Open Truth
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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

No work Flourish Guilt Fear
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Your soul is not in your body; your body is in your soul.
Your soul Body
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Medication Discovery Point Life
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We’re living in a fluid universe, in which the art of faith is not in taking one’s stand, but in learning to swim.

Fluid universe Art Faith One's stand
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Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.

Your skin Separate you World Bridge through
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Alan Watts Quotes & Sayings