"Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not……" — Alan Watts
"Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is."
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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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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the…
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
— Henri Poincare
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Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.
— Sun Tzu
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The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.
— Grove Karl Gilbert
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Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.
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It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock.…
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It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to…
— Mickey Rourke
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us…
— N. Scott Momaday
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