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Alan W. Watts quotes: Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat.
Alan W. Watts quotes: If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains. If we are to have intense pleasures, we must also be liable to intense pains.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Aesthetics is really a much better approach to ethics than theology is. Aesthetics is really a much better approach to ethics than theology is.
Alan W. Watts quotes: One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan W. Watts quotes: I am basically an eternal existence momentarily and perhaps needlesslyterrified by one half of itself.. I am basically an eternal existence
momentarily and perhaps needlessly
terrified by one half of itself..
Alan W. Watts quotes: [T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey. [T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
Alan W. Watts quotes: If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go. If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
Alan W. Watts quotes: To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity. To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
Alan W. Watts quotes: What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve. What is real, if you have decided to live in the dimension of space and time, is muscle and nerve.
Alan W. Watts quotes: All belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty - religions All belief is fervent hope, and thus a cover-up for doubt and uncertainty - religions
Alan W. Watts quotes: Every one of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out. Every one of us is an aperture through which the whole cosmos looks out.
Alan W. Watts quotes: You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here. You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Read Theodore Schwenk's marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965), Read Theodore Schwenk's marvelous book Sensitive Chaos (London, Rudolph Steiner Press, 1965),
Alan W. Watts quotes: The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Alan W. Watts quotes: When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love. When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of ... Nothing is left but to love.
Alan W. Watts quotes: But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
Alan W. Watts quotes: In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself. In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Because the world is not going anywhere there is no hurry. Because the world is not going anywhere there is no hurry.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
Alan W. Watts quotes: If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut. If we are open only to discoveries which will accord with what we know already, we may as well stay shut.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Like a mighty army moves the Church of God. But this is no way for a gentle-man. Like a mighty army moves the Church of God. But this is no way for a gentle-man.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world. The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.
Alan W. Watts quotes: As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth. As long as you do not know how to die and come to life again, you are but a sorry traveler on this dark earth.
Alan W. Watts quotes: It just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious. It just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.
Alan W. Watts quotes: When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end. When each moment becomes an expectation life is deprived of fulfillment, and death is dreaded for it seems that here expectation must come to an end.
Alan W. Watts quotes: In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1 In the Garden of Eden Adam saw the animals before he named them: in the traditional system, children named the animals before they saw them.1
Alan W. Watts quotes: I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of goo. I have always thought that all philosophical debates are ultimately between the partisans of structure and the partisans of goo.
Alan W. Watts quotes: For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves. For the trouble with our rich and powerful people is not so much that they are wicked, but that they do not enjoy themselves.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort. The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
Alan W. Watts quotes: I obtained not the least thing from unexcelled, complete awakening, and for this very reason it is called unexcelled, complete awakening. I obtained not the least thing from unexcelled, complete awakening, and for this very reason it is called unexcelled, complete awakening.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.
Alan W. Watts quotes: You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Evil" read backwards is "live." Demon est deus inversus. Evil" read backwards is "live." Demon est deus inversus.
Alan W. Watts quotes: You don't understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know. You don't understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Belief clings, but faith lets go. Belief clings, but faith lets go.
Alan W. Watts quotes: human beings are overshadowed by anxiety because of our divided selves. I human beings are overshadowed by anxiety because of our divided selves. I
Alan W. Watts quotes: Life, like getting an erection, is a spontaneous process which collapses when one tries to force it to happen. Life, like getting an erection, is a spontaneous process which collapses when one tries to force it to happen.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior. Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
Alan W. Watts quotes: To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive. To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead, for as our own proverb says, To travel well is better than to arrive.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that. Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.
Alan W. Watts quotes: 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. 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.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished. Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
Alan W. Watts quotes: You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan W. Watts quotes: We are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night. We are convinced that sleep is a waste of valuable time and continue to chase these fantasies far into the night.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Backwards law. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float. Backwards law. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Almost all civilized peoples have been brought up to think of themselves as ghosts in machines, Almost all civilized peoples have been brought up to think of themselves as ghosts in machines,
Alan W. Watts quotes: Like words, memories never really succeed in "catching" reality. Like words, memories never really succeed in "catching" reality.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Logic, intelligence, and reason are satisfied, but the heart goes hungry. Logic, intelligence, and reason are satisfied, but the heart goes hungry.
Alan W. Watts quotes: [A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...]. [A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...].
Alan W. Watts quotes: I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination. I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Alan W. Watts quotes: A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
Alan W. Watts quotes: For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere. For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Is in vain that doctors prolong life if we spend the extra time being anxious to live still longer. Is in vain that doctors prolong life if we spend the extra time being anxious to live still longer.
Alan W. Watts quotes: If a man seeks the Buddha, that man loses the Buddha. If a man seeks the Buddha, that man loses the Buddha.
Alan W. Watts quotes: My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water. My death will be the disappearance of a particular pattern in the water.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Nobody believes in God like an atheist: "There is no God, and I am His prophet. Nobody believes in God like an atheist: "There is no God, and I am His prophet.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them. Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Alan W. Watts quotes: I owe my solitude to other people. I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan W. Watts quotes: For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years. The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
Alan W. Watts quotes: You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Alan W. Watts quotes: What will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand What will happen to me when I die is, after all, like asking what happens to my fist when I open my hand
Alan W. Watts quotes: Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex. Actually, the world is not complex. It is the task of trying to figure it out with words or numbers that is complex.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. This Salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves. This
Alan W. Watts quotes: Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledgeof oneself. Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself.
Alan W. Watts quotes: What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?
Alan W. Watts quotes: Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe. Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Us. The good of contemplation is contemplation - not some result that it may bring. Us. The good of contemplation is contemplation - not some result that it may bring.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The menu is not the meal. The menu is not the meal.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The most real state, is the state of nothing. The most real state, is the state of nothing.
Alan W. Watts quotes: When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
Alan W. Watts quotes: People become concerned with being more humble than other people. People become concerned with being more humble than other people.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Human desire tends to be insatiable. Human desire tends to be insatiable.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world. The greatest illusion of the abstract ego is that it can do anything to bring about radical improvement either in itself or in the world.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see The possession of a strong will and a clever head makes some things very difficult to see
Alan W. Watts quotes: The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
Alan W. Watts quotes: To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed. To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death. Thus not to see the unity of self and other is the fear of life, and not to see the unity of being and nonbeing is the fear of death.
Alan W. Watts quotes: It is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid. It is really impossible to appreciate what is meant by the Tao without becoming, in a rather special sense, stupid.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan W. Watts quotes: [W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences. [W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Alan W. Watts quotes: only doubtful truths need defense. only doubtful truths need defense.
Alan W. Watts quotes: We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat. We know that from time to time, there arise among human beings, people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.
Alan W. Watts quotes: Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church.
Alan W. Watts quotes: It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
Alan W. Watts quotes: The source of all light is in the eye. The source of all light is in the eye.
Alan W. Watts quotes: fear is born of duality - fear is born of duality -

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