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There are 55 quotes for the author Alan Watts

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Subject: Love & Romance

In love there are two things : bodies and words.
Subject: Love & Romance

There's no point in going on living unless we make the assumption that the situation of life is optimal.

So to describe myself in a scientific way, I must also describe my surroundings, which is a clumsy way getting around to the realization that you are the entire universe.

People today think being a hermit is a very unhealthy thing to do. Very antisocial, doesn't contribute anything to everybody else - because everybody else is busy contributing like blazes, and a few people have to run off and get out of the way.

The idea of anatman, of non-self, is applied in Buddhism not only to the individual ego, but also to the notion that there is a self of the universe, a kind of impersonal or personal god, and so it is generally supposed that Buddhism is generally atheistic.

The Earth is geological, yes, but this geological entity grows people, and our existence on the Earth is a symptom of this other system, and its balances, as much as the solar system in turn is a symptom of our galaxy, and our galaxy in its turn is a symptom of a whole company of other galaxies.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

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.

So then, in Buddhism, change is emphasized.

Well actually, when you look out there and see all these people and things sitting around, that's how it feels inside your head.

Buddhism is not saying that the Self, the great atman, or whatnot, it isn't denying that the experience which corresponds to these words is realizable.

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