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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.

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.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Trust, Faith
"The Essence of Alan Watts". Book by Alan Watts, 1977.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom
Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Life, Simple

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Life, Yoga
Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Life, Eye

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Life, Buddhist
Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.27, New World Library

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

Alan Watts
Inspirational, God, Sky

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
Inspirational, Fear, Heart
Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.79, Souvenir Press

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials
Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press

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.

Alan Watts
Inspirational, Believe, Parent

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