Alan Watts
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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.
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Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
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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.
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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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.
Alan Watts
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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.
Alan Watts
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
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No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts