Alan Watts Quotes, Life Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

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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Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

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Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

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You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

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Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

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