Alan Watts Quotes

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

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Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?

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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

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We usually don't look. We overlook.

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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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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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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

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Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

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The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

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

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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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

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And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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