Wednesday, December 09, 2020

Alan Watts

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

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

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.

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

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

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

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.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Wilson Watts 

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