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• There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

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  New Day, Peaceful, Calm

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• Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

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  Running, Pain, Fighting

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

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• Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

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  Eye, Phones, Meditation

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• The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

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  Life, Motivational, Memories

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.22, Random House

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

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  Goal, Missing, World

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

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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

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  Roots, Anxiety, Strange

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• Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

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  Secret, Together, Different

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

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• Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

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  Spiritual, Vanity, Self

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.191, New World Library

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• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

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  Love, Life, Relationship

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• We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

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  Eye, Self, Energy

  "The essence of Alan Watts".

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• A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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  Flames, Events, Body

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.23, New World Library

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• If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.

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  Stupid, Order, Important

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• Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.

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  Motivational, Reality, Missing

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• We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives.
  As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves.
  The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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  War, Thinking, Giving

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

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• But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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  Inspiring, Forests, Quiet

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• When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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  Exercise, Giving, Human Nature

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• Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

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  Reality, Play, Ideas

  Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

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  Thinking, Long, Listening

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• Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

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  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

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  Time, Mind, Moments

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.56, New World Library

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• The wake doesn't drive the ship

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  Ships

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• The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

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  Sacred, Mundane

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.29, New World Library

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• The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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  Art, Light, Sculpture

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

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• The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

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  Baby, Lying, Believe

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• The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

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  Ego, Ego Trip

  "Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".

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