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• The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

  Alan Watts

  World, Marvelous

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• Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.

  Alan Watts

  Practice, Breathing, Bridges

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.71, New World Library

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• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Alan Watts

  Humor, Deep Thought, Goes On

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• In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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  Feelings, Certain

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• The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

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  Marijuana, Might, Sides

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• We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

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  Talking, Listening, Ordinary

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• The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

  Alan Watts

  Expression, Games, People

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Death, Future

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

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• A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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  Attention, Paradox, Standing

  Alan Watts (1994). “Talking Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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• And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

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  Hands, Ignorant, Used

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• You can't have something without nothing.

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  Alan Watts (2007). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965”, p.357, New World Library

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• The source of all light is in the eye.

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  Eye, Light, Source

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• Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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  Self, Mind, Wish

  "The Wisdom of Insecurity".

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• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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  Art, Games, Perfection

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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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• Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

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  Inspiring, Unique, Tree

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

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  Fun, Play, Knowing

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• In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

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  Simplicity, Poverty

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.84, New World Library

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• If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

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  Real, Past, World

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

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

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  People, World, Want

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• Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

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  Accountability, Great Company, Deals

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• Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

  Alan Watts

  Looks, World, Environment

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.36, New World Library

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• And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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  Self, Realizing, Connected

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

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• Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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  Inspiring, Peace, Stars

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