Alan Watts Quotes, Art Quotes, Skills Quotes

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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The destination of life is this eternal moment.

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

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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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Society is our extended mind and body.

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Cows scream louder than carrots.

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.

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If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

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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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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

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What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.

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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back from the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see it's like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also, watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the sentence means...The present is always changing the past.

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