Quotes Alan Watts
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
I owe my solitude to other people.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
