Alan Watts Quotes About Letting Go

Quotes about: Letting Go

• Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Ego, Purpose

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

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Letting Go

• Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Mean, Men

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.

  Alan Watts

  Faith, Letting Go, Hands

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.67, New World Library

• Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

  Alan Watts

  Faith, Letting Go, Oneself

• If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Have Faith, Belief

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

• But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Effort, Ego

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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