Alan Watts Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Symphony Quotes

Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

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Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it." Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: "I want something more", because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it.

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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

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To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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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.

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Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

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Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain which scans the environment for any trouble making changes. If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

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A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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The sound of the rain needs no translation.

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

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Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

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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.

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The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

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