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Out Quotes by Alan Watts
- You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.
- 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.
- 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…
- You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
- To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And…
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
- By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
- Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
- Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this…
- There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too…
- When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and…
- The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger…
- When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of…
- We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you are looking deeply into yourself,…
- If you belong to an in-group of good, or saved, or elite people, you can only know that you’re in because someone else is out.…
- All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
- You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
- No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made…
- But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
- 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…
- Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
- Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re…
- In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
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