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Inspirational Quotes by Alan Watts

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Alan Watts reminds us that everything is always becoming something new, and the old Chinese masters practiced a simple Zen of ‘no fuss.’ He says we must step out of our minds each day to truly sense the present, and that living fully now is the only way to be alive.

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Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

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The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

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The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

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Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we…

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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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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

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Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

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Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?

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All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you…

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If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified.…

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize…

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It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice…

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The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is…

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

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Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

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Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

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Black implies white self implies other

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You can't have something without nothing.

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The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

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Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality...

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What would you do if money was no object?

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The wake doesn't drive the ship

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You can't make love without art.

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

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What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

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You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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

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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium

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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

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To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

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Everything is perpetually becoming new.

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“As you make more and more powerful microscopic instruments, the universe has to get smaller and smaller in order to escape the investigation. Just…

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A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.