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• Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

  Alan Watts

  Soul, Body, Your Soul

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.110, New World Library

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• What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

  Alan Watts

  Spending, Enjoy, Objects

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• There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

  Alan Watts

  New Day, Peaceful, Calm

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• 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 if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

  Alan Watts

  Bridges, Giving, Mind

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• A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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  Flames, Events, Body

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.23, New World Library

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• The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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  Art, Light, Sculpture

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

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• Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

  Alan Watts

  Acceptance, Frustration, Men

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• Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Vanity, Self

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.191, New World Library

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• The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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  Human Nature, Lifeless, Permanent

  Alan Watts (1982). “Play to Live: Selected Seminars”

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• Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Listening, Life Is Like

  Alan Watts (1983). “The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self”, Weatherhill, Incorporated

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• When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

  Alan Watts

  Exercise, Giving, Human Nature

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• The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

  Alan Watts

  Sacred, Mundane

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Individual, Enjoyment

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.78, Souvenir Press

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• And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

  Alan Watts

  Love Is, Ideas, Two

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• 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 up.

  Alan Watts

  Meditation, Way, Shut Up

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• There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Moving, Past

  "The Way of Zen".

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• A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Too Much, Persons

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• The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

  Alan Watts

  Ego, Ego Trip

  "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".

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• Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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  Inspiring, Sleep, Trying

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

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

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Play, Ideas

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

  Alan Watts

  Water, Wet

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

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• Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

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  Secret, Together, Different

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

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• Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

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  Worry, Energy, Eternal

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.105, New World Library

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• The wake doesn't drive the ship

  Alan Watts

  Ships

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