Alan Watts Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Men Quotes

Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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Black implies white self implies other

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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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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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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.

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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

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What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

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Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

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We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

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