Alan Watts Quotes, Self Quotes

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

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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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As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

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The wake doesn't drive the ship

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Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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I owe my solitude to other people.

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This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.

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What would you do if money was no object?

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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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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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Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

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But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

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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.

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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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The source of all light is in the eye.

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...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

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