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• You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

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  Ocean, World, Energy

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• Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

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  Buddhist, Fun, Buddhism

  Alan Watts (2003). “Become what You are”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.

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  Where You Are, Objects

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.89, Sounds True

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• We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Ocean

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

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• When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

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  Change, World, Way

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.123, New World Library

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• Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.

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  Acceptance, Frustration, Men

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• I owe my solitude to other people.

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  People, Solitude

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• Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!

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  Soul, Body, Your Soul

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.110, New World Library

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• To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

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  Spiritual, Mind, Important

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

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• There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.

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  Running, Moving, Past

  "The Way of Zen".

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• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

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

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• Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

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  Love, Good Morning, Sexy

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.189, New World Library

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• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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  Inspiring, Pain, Mental Health

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

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• For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

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  Ifs

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.128, Vintage

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• We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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  Inspiring, Thinking, Example

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

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• Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

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  World, Victim, Define Yourself

  "Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek".

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• Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

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  Suicide, Commitment, Intellectual

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• Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

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  Jesus, Crazy, Congratulations

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• Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

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  Past, Listening, Life Is Like

  Alan Watts (1983). “The Way of Liberation: Essays and Lectures on the Transformation of the Self”, Weatherhill, Incorporated

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• The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

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  Human Nature, Lifeless, Permanent

  Alan Watts (1982). “Play to Live: Selected Seminars”

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• If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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  May, Forget, Improving

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• Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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  Inspiring, Sleep, Trying

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• If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

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  Love, Song, Bird

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• Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has 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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  Art, Skills, Energy

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• We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

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  Culture, Illusion, Illusion Of Time

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