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• You can't get wet from the word 'water.'

  Alan Watts

  Water, Wet

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

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• You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Yoga

  Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.90, New World Library

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• It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Alan Watts

  Self Esteem, Humor, Deep Thought

  Life Magazine, April 21, 1961.

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• Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

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  Inspiring, Frustration, Trying

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

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• What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

  Alan Watts

  Spending, Enjoy, Objects

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• Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Buddhist

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.27, New World Library

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• The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Puppets, Whole

  Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.36, Tuttle Publishing

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• We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.

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  Rushing, Looking Forward, Enough

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.31, New World Library

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• To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

  Alan Watts

  Beautiful, Depressing, Ocean

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

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• The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

  Alan Watts

  World, Marvelous

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• Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life.

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  Educational, Clothes, Giving

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• A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Too Much, Persons

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• Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

  Alan Watts

  Worry, Energy, Eternal

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.105, New World Library

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• But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

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  Inspiring, Faith, Letting Go

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• There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.

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  Flower, Way, Bees

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• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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  Art, Games, Perfection

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• If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

  Alan Watts

  Wake Up, Want, Illusion

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.79, New World Library

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• Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

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  Meditation, Way, Shut Up

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• A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.

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  Attention, Paradox, Standing

  Alan Watts (1994). “Talking Zen”, Shambhala Publications

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• If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

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  Pain, Ghost, Forgotten

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.29, Souvenir Press

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• When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

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  Eye, Looks, Happenings

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• If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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  Happiness, Death, Future

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

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

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

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• Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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  Losing, Chaos, Defeated

  Alan Watts (2017). “Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek”, p.72, Sounds True

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