"When we look for things there is nothing……" — Alan Watts

"When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things."

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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 Chaos Quotes

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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