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

  Alan Watts

  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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• 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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• I owe my solitude to other people.

  Alan Watts

  People, Solitude

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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.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Sleep, Trying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

  Alan Watts

  Flower, Way, Bees

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• The wake doesn't drive the ship

  Alan Watts

  Ships

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• So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  Money, People, Saving

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

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• Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Home, Way

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.31, Souvenir Press

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• Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Phones, Meditation

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• To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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  Thinking, Long, Listening

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• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Alan Watts

  Self Esteem, Humor, Deep Thought

  Life Magazine, April 21, 1961.

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• Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

  Alan Watts

  Wake Up, Littles, Poor

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• Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

  Alan Watts

  Losing, Chaos, Defeated

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.72, Sounds True

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• Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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  Laughter, Humanity, Oneself

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• The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

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  Baby, Lying, Believe

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• If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Games, Matter

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

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• But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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  Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

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• We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

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  Eye, Self, Energy

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• The menu is not the meal.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Meals

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• this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

  Alan Watts

  Time, Mind, Moments

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.56, New World Library

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