Alan Watts Quotes, Rain Quotes, Book Quotes

That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

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

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We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

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Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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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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To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

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When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

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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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We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

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