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Whole Quotes by Alan Watts
- 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…
- 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…
- Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
- The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
- We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get…
- What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe…
- Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole…
- The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way…
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown…
- 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…
- The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it…
- In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy,…
- You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
- 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…
- Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
- You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole…
- It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it…
- 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…
- If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of…
- There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
- For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch…
- For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than…
- No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
- A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
- The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or…
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- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
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- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden