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Alan Watts quotes: Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure. Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.
Alan Watts quotes: Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
Alan Watts quotes: To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
Alan Watts quotes: For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me. For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
Alan Watts quotes: The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination. The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.
Alan Watts quotes: But we must not suffer over the suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.
Alan Watts quotes: A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites. A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
Alan Watts quotes: When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
Alan Watts quotes: It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn. It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
Alan Watts quotes: We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves. We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Alan Watts quotes: Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality ... Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality ...
Alan Watts quotes: Religion is always falling apart. Religion is always falling apart.
Alan Watts quotes: The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
Alan Watts quotes: What would you do if money was no object? What would you do if money was no object?
Alan Watts quotes: There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy. There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
Alan Watts quotes: To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses. To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
Alan Watts quotes: The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts quotes: For since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference. For since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.
Alan Watts quotes: If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
Alan Watts quotes: This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
Alan Watts quotes: You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan Watts quotes: You can't get wet from the word 'water.' You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
Alan Watts quotes: If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Alan Watts quotes: The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts quotes: Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul! Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!
Alan Watts quotes: And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts quotes: Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
Alan Watts quotes: Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.
Alan Watts quotes: Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
Alan Watts quotes: The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind. The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.
Alan Watts quotes: Everything is perpetually becoming new. Everything is perpetually becoming new.
Alan Watts quotes: We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
Alan Watts quotes: Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
Alan Watts quotes: The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
Alan Watts quotes: Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
Alan Watts quotes: What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born. What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.
Alan Watts quotes: Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it. Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
Alan Watts quotes: What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
Alan Watts quotes: Duality is always secretly unity. Duality is always secretly unity.
Alan Watts quotes: Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is. Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
Alan Watts quotes: You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are. You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
Alan Watts quotes: You can't have something without nothing. You can't have something without nothing.
Alan Watts quotes: The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested. The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
Alan Watts quotes: Faith is a state of openness or trust. Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts quotes: How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead? How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?
Alan Watts quotes: In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
Alan Watts quotes: You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it. You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
Alan Watts quotes: We see what we believe rather than what we see. We see what we believe rather than what we see.
Alan Watts quotes: It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire? It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
Alan Watts quotes: You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean. You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.
Alan Watts quotes: Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Alan Watts quotes: I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish. I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
Alan Watts quotes: The destination of life is this eternal moment. The destination of life is this eternal moment.
Alan Watts quotes: Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol ... Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol ...
Alan Watts quotes: So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
Alan Watts quotes: That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality. That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.
Alan Watts quotes: Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost. Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
Alan Watts quotes: Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
Alan Watts quotes: For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method. For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.
Alan Watts quotes: Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is. Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
Alan Watts quotes: How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
Alan Watts quotes: Nets, grids, and other types of calculus. Nets, grids, and other types of calculus.
Alan Watts quotes: The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan Watts quotes: We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses. We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day.
When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
Alan Watts quotes: To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
Alan Watts quotes: I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek. I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
Alan Watts quotes: The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever. The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
Alan Watts quotes: Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults. Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.
Alan Watts quotes: The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
Alan Watts quotes: But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
Alan Watts quotes: Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time. Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.
Alan Watts quotes: All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head. All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
Alan Watts quotes: You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it. You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
Alan Watts quotes: If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate. If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
Alan Watts quotes: Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will? Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?
Alan Watts quotes: Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart. Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.
Alan Watts quotes: We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts quotes: The mind's the standard of the man. The mind's the standard of the man.
Alan Watts quotes: The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts quotes: Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is. Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
Alan Watts quotes: Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us. Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
Alan Watts quotes: There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day. There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
Alan Watts quotes: We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.
Alan Watts quotes: You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping. You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
Alan Watts quotes: You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
Alan Watts quotes: And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
Alan Watts quotes: You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play! You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
Alan Watts quotes: Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
Alan Watts quotes: The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss." The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."
Alan Watts quotes: To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Alan Watts quotes: Chaos is always losing, but never defeated Chaos is always losing, but never defeated
Alan Watts quotes: Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe. Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
Alan Watts quotes: We usually don't look. We overlook. We usually don't look. We overlook.
Alan Watts quotes: The habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns. The habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
Alan Watts quotes: A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention. A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
Alan Watts quotes: They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun. They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.
Alan Watts quotes: You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
Alan Watts quotes: There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it. There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.
Alan Watts quotes: Faith ... is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown. Faith ... is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.
Alan Watts quotes: But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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