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• Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living- thus becomes a duty and also a drag because you are not fully with it; because it does not quite come up to expectations, you continue to hope that it will, to crave for more time, to feel driven all the more to go on.

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  Circles, Expectations, Survival

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• But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

  Alan Watts

  Letting Go, Effort, Ego

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

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• Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

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  Reality, Ultimate, Ultimate Reality

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

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• What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

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  Safety, Painful, Imagine

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

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  Telescopes

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

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• Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

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  Inspiring, Conventions

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

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  Alive, Knows, Did You Know

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• When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

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  Running, Thinking, Countryside

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• 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 personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

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  Taken, Law, Land

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

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• One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

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  Guilt, Mindfulness, May

  alan w. watts (1961). “psychotherapy east and west”

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• To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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  Silence, Stopping, Looks

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• 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 of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

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  Integrity, Light, Shining

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• Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

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  Faith, Letting Go, Oneself

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• Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them.

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  Life And Love, Effort, And Love

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.53, Souvenir Press

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• To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

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  God, Way, Feels

  Alan Watts (1998). “The Culture of Counter-culture: The Edited Transcripts”, Tuttle Publishing

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• There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to "get culture" or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.

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  Mind, Culture, Way

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 90), 1966.

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• If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.

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  Flower, Fields, Transcendental

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.169, New World Library

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• It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous "echo" to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.

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  Thinking, Echoes, Self

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• Black implies white self implies other

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  Self, White, Black

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.16, Sounds True

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• Duality is always secretly unity.

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  Truth, Unity, Duality

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• Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

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  Buddhism, Culture, Loyal

  "Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

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• The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

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  Learning, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.98, Random House

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• Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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  Intelligent, Frustrated, Want

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• A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

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  Opposites, Spirituality, Holy

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• Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

  Alan Watts

  Self, People, Curiosity

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