"The difficulty for most of us in the……" — Alan Watts
"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
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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…
- 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.