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From Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous…
- Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent…
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of…
- We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we…
- When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous,…
- Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
- To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
- There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity…
- Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut…
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.
- The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
- To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people…
- The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
- The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from the giant pine, which lives for a thousand years.
- We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every…
- Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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