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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. "

Alan Watts

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" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "

" You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "

" 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. "

" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "

" I owe my solitude to other people. "

" Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. "

" But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. "

Alan Watts

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Powerful

" But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. "

" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "

" Saints need sinners. "

" We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. "

Alan Watts

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Pain

" Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. "

" The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. "

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

" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "

Alan Watts

Your

Yourself

" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "

Alan Watts

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" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "

" But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. "

" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "