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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.

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  Flower, Way, Bees

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• I owe my solitude to other people.

  Alan Watts

  People, Solitude

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• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Music, Symphony

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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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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

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  Roots, Anxiety, Strange

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• If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

  Alan Watts

  Pain, Ghost, Forgotten

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.29, Souvenir Press

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• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

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  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

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  Important, Desire

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• We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives.
  As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves.
  The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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  War, Thinking, Giving

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

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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.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Long, Listening

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• Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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  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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• 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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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

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  Pain, Real, Lying

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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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• 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.

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  Wake Up, Littles, Poor

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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.

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  Past, Games, Matter

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

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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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• 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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• The menu is not the meal.

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  Inspiring, Philosophy, Meals

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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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• 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.

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  Time, Mind, Moments

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

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• Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

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  Educational, Clothes, Giving

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