"For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing……" — Alan Watts
"For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the…
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If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of…
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
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We usually don't look. We overlook.
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