Alan Watts Quotes, Adversity Quotes

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

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Religion is always falling apart.

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When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

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We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

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There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

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Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

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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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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

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What is the next step, the practical application? —I will answer that the absolutely vital thing is to consolidate your understanding, to become capable of enjoyment, of living in the present, and of the discipline which this involves. Without this you have nothing to give.

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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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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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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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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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