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• What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.

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  Inspiring, Running, Stars

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.92, New World Library

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• Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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  Moving, Ready

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.53, New World Library

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• What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

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  Inability

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• Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

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  Letting Go, Mean, Men

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

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• Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

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  Inspiring, Way, Problem

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.44, Souvenir Press

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• The sound of the rain needs no translation.

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  Rain, Sound, Needs

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• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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  Freedom, Water, Leaving

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

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  Play, Forget, Notes

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• A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

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  Wisdom, Reality, Thinking

  "Alan Watts Teaches Meditation". Audiobook by Alan Watts, 1992.

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• Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

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  World, Meaningless

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• Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

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  Future, Worry, Progress

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

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• Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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  Short Life, Long, Way

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• The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.

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  Thinking, Doe

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• Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

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  Water, Mind, Trying

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• Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

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  Spirituality, Openness

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• It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

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  Acorns, Turns, Take Time

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.24, Sounds True

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• To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give; no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

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  Bridges, Giving, Mind

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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  Inspirational, Life, Simple

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• We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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  Believe

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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.

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  Unique, Men, Definitions

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

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• For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

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  Contentment, Alive, Able

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• Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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  Laughter, Real, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

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• Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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  Trying, Way, Hurrying

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.32, New World Library

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• The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

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  Realizing, Should, Right Now

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• Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

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  Secret, Wipe, Take A Deep Breath

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