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• Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.27, New World Library

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• A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
  whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

  Alan Watts

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.4, New World Library

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• You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

  Alan Watts

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• We usually don't look. We overlook.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Journey, Looks

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• Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Science, Men

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• When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Looks, Happenings

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• But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Letting Go

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• When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

  Alan Watts

  Communication, Unique, Men

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.7, New World Library

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

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

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• The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Men, Feet

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

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• The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

  Alan Watts

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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

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• Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

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

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• When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Religion, Looks

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

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• For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

  Alan Watts

  Desire, Want, Limitless

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

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• The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Unique, Past

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

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• You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

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• Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.

  Alan Watts

  Our World, Doctrine, Way

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• The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

  Alan Watts

  Independent, Knowing, Ego

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

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• When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

  Alan Watts

  Lonely, Feelings, Littles

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

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• Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Reality, Clouds

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• In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

  Alan Watts

  World, Forget

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• It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

  Alan Watts

  Jobs, Moving, Careers

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• The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

  Alan Watts

  Focus, Ego, Attention

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.21, Sounds True

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• It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

  Alan Watts

  Dance, God, Sports

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Bridges, Insane

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.84, New World Library

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