Alan Watts Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Frustration Quotes

Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

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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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You are the universe experiencing itself.

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Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

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For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is simply one all-inclusive Happening, in which your personal sensation of being alive occurs in just the same way as the river flowing and the stars shining far out in space. There is no question of submitting or accepting or going with it, for what happens in and as you is no different from what happens as it.

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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

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We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

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Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

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Society is our extended mind and body.

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...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

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