Alan Watts Quotes, Mind Quotes, Culture Quotes

There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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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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The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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Cows scream louder than carrots.

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.

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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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The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.

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The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

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You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

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Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.

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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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Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

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

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

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You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

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