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• Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Awakening, Flip

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins. Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and so the world repeats itself again and again.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Circles, Watches

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

  Alan Watts

  Culture, Body, Clock

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• Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

  Alan Watts

  Differences, Galaxy

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• Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

  Alan Watts

  Fabric, Structure, Existence

  Alan Watts (2018). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek”, p.21, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Missing, Greek

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Rejection, Ego, Identity

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange.

  Alan Watts

  People, Feelings, Suffering

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Self, White, Black

  "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Distance, Journey

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• Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

  Alan Watts

  Would Be, World, Birth

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.61, Souvenir Press

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• We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

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  Accountability, Doe, Be Careful

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• The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is

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  World, Whole

  Alan Watts (2000). “What is Zen?”, p.116, New World Library

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• If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

  Alan Watts

  Trust Yourself, Mistrust, Whole

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.43, Souvenir Press

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• There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

  Alan Watts

  Sex, Interesting, Pruning

  Alan Watts (1996). “Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts”, p.94, Tuttle Publishing

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• So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

  Alan Watts

  Loving Yourself, Self Love, Realization

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• The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

  Alan Watts

  Ignorance, Sky, Knowing

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.49, Souvenir Press

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• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use - which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing - for your mind is not on the music. You don't swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Artist, Swings

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 92), 1966.

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• The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Heart, Years

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Organization, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

  Alan Watts

  Men, Said, Young

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• 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 must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

  Alan Watts

  Moving, Unique, Often Is

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.

  Alan Watts

  Bird, Decision, Singing

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.

  Alan Watts

  Cutting, Men, Survival

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.4, New World Library

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• What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Fabric, Structure

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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