Alan Watts Quotes - Page 16

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• Society is our extended mind and body.

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Body, Mind And Body

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.50, Souvenir Press

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• Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

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  Work, Quality, May

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

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• The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

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  Simple, Doctrine, World

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.58, Vintage

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• It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

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  Spiritual, Oddities, Feelings

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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• To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!

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  Death, Space, Secret

  Alan Watts (2000). “What is Zen?”, p.81, New World Library

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• You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

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  Sea, World, Wave

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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• I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

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  Ego, Skins, Bags

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• The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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  Ideas, Gentleman, Marvelous

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• Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

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  Conscious, Know How, Knows

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

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  Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

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• However much I may be impressed by the difference between a star and the dark space around it, I must not forget that I can see the two only in relation to each other, and that this relation is inseparable.

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  Stars, Dark, Two

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

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• The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.

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  Soul, Body, Language

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• No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

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  Mouths, Enough, Bigs

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

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• Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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  Real, Book, Paper

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• 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 all the time.

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  Inspiring, Confused, Purpose

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.69, Souvenir Press

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• Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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  Technology, Hands, People

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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  Powerful, Power, Negative

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

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  Ideas, Stink, Masters

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.130, Vintage

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• LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

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  Telescopes, Lsd, Microscopes

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• To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars.

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  Stars, Moving, Thinking

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• The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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  Ideas, World, Incredibles

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

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  Self, People, Interesting

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

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• The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

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  Beach, Moving, Book

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.54, Souvenir Press

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• In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

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  Ocean, Moving, Reality

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• 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. You cannot live on the right side of the tracks without there being a wrong side of the tracks, so you ought to be grateful to the outside for having the privilege of being on the inside.

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  Grateful, People, Track

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