Alan Watts Quotes, Eye Quotes, Self Quotes

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

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That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

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

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When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

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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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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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The menu is not the meal.

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I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.

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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

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Courage is the goal of cowards.

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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.

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To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it.

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