"A living body is not a fixed thing,……" — Alan Watts

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

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347 Quotes by Alan Watts

Alan Watts has 347 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
The sound of the rain needs no translation.
You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
We usually don't look. We overlook.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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