"What we have to discover is that there……" — Alan Watts
"What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it."
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347 Quotes by Alan Watts
Alan Watts has 347 quotes on this site.
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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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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
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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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The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its…
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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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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is…
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When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
— John Barrymore
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
— Saint Basil
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret…
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Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with…
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because…
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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the…
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