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• Black implies white self implies other

  Alan Watts

  Self, White, Black

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.16, Sounds True

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• Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

  Alan Watts

  Faith, Letting Go, Oneself

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• You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Ocean, Way

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• We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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  Tree, World, This World

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.8, Souvenir Press

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• Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

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  Inspirational, Pleasure, Materials

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press

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• Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

  Alan Watts

  Attitude, Mirrors, People

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.50, Souvenir Press

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• The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.

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  Art, Ego, Mind

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• The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

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  Mean, Missing, Greek

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• That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

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  Rain, Book, Sound

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• Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

  Alan Watts

  Conscious, Know How, Knows

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• The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

  Alan Watts

  Real, Chinese, Masters

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• Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

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  Thinking, Idols, People

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

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• You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

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  Telescopes

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

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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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• ...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

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  Problem, Chopping, Horns

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

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• To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam.

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  Silence, Stopping, Looks

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

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• A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

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  Culture, Body, Clock

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• I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

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  Wave Of Life, Light, Forever

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

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  Ego, Life Is, Inches

  "Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety".

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• There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Formulas

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

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• Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

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  Fabric, Structure, Existence

  Alan Watts (2018). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek”, p.21, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the attitude of attacking the unknown. And that causes us not to realize that we are already on the most magnificently equipped spaceship, which could hardly be improved upon. It has got a source of temperature and energy just at the right distance from it. It's beautifully equipped with oxygen, with food supplies, with all kinds of delightful things to do while on the journey.... and it's traveling through space at a colossal speed... and it's called the planet Earth.

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  Attitude, Distance, Journey

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• Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.

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  Reality, Ultimate, Ultimate Reality

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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• Duality is always secretly unity.

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  Truth, Unity, Duality

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• The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit.

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  People, Giving, Limits

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