"Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life……" — Alan Watts
"Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world."
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Alan Watts
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not…
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no…
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The sound of the rain needs no translation.
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You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
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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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But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora…
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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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