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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Alan Watts

Lying, Games, Plot

"The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity" by Alan Watts, (p. 29), 1963.

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...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

Alan Watts

Real, Differences, Littles

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Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Alan Watts

Ocean, Cosmos, Whole

Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

Alan Watts

Past, Dangerous Situations, Risk

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

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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

Alan Watts

Cat, Violin, Scraping

Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Tao?”, p.89, New World Library

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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Alan Watts

Buddhist, Nonsense, Notes

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Religion is always falling apart.

Alan Watts

Fall, Falling Apart

Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.38, Tuttle Publishing

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"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

Alan Watts

Technology, Animal, Vegetables

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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Confused, Events

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.58, New World Library

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I knew of a physicist at the University of Chicago who was rather crazy like some scientists, and the idea of the insolidity, the instability of the physical world impressed him so much that he used to go around in enormous padded slippers for fear he should fall through the floor.

Alan Watts

Crazy, Fall, Ideas

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The mind's the standard of the man.

Alan Watts

Men, Mind, He Man

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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Alan Watts

Skins, Body, Kind

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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Watts

Years, White, Black

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.37, Souvenir Press

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Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

Alan Watts

Reality, Negative

Alan Watts (1996). “Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Alan Watts

Writing, Men, Names

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... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

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Banking, Mathematics, Arithmetic

Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.43, New World Library

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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Alan Watts

Thinking, Feelings, Deceiving

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

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The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

Alan Watts

Business, Philosophy, Positive Thinking

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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Alan Watts

Beach, California, San Francisco

Alan Watts (1997). “Zen & the Beat Way”, Tuttle Publishing

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That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Alan Watts

Strong

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Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

Alan Watts

Inspiring, Space, Patterns

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.68, Souvenir Press

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Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Watts

Teacher, Real, Men

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

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... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

Alan Watts

Mathematics, Grids, Type

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.104, Souvenir Press

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For there is a growing apprehension that existence is a rat-race in a trap: living organisms, including people, are merely tubes which put things in at one end and let them out at the other, which which both keeps them doing it and in the long run wears them out. So to keep the farce going, the tubes find ways of making new tubes, which also put things in at one end and let them out at the other.

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Running, Race, Long

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Born: January 6, 1915
Died: November 16, 1973
Occupation: Philosopher
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