Alan Watts Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Fear Quotes

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.

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Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

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To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

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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 soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

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What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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The wake doesn't drive the ship

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The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

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And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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Courage is the goal of cowards.

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No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

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