Alan Watts Quotes

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• The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more…
• 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 energy, nerve-work, and materials in…
• If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly…
• 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 outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.…
• But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our…
• If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still…
• The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play…
• To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be…
• We usually don't look. We overlook.
• I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was…
• Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.
• To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.
• Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
• Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
• You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave…
• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one…
• Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

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