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• Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

  Alan Watts

  Looks, World, Environment

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.36, New World Library

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• You can't have something without nothing.

  Alan Watts

  Alan Watts (2007). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography, 1915-1965”, p.357, New World Library

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• If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me.

  Alan Watts

  Wake Up, Littles, Poor

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• The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

  Alan Watts

  Marijuana, Might, Sides

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• They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

  Alan Watts

  Fun, Play, Knowing

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• In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

  Alan Watts

  World, Forget

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• You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.

  Alan Watts

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• To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Conventions, Deceived

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

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• A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

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  People, Intellectual, Philosopher

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.73, New World Library

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• Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

  Alan Watts

  Accountability, Great Company, Deals

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.

  Alan Watts

  Intellectual, Inability, Accepting

  Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

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• It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

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  Jobs, Moving, Careers

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• Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Humanity, Oneself

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• In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.

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  Feelings, Certain

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• So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  Money, People, Saving

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

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• The menu is not the meal.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Philosophy, Meals

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• And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

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  Love Is, Ideas, Two

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• If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Past, World

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

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• The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the I out of the experience...
  Sanity, wholeness and integration lie in the realisation that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate I or mind can be found .... [Life] is a dance, and when you are dancing, you are not intent on getting somewhere. The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.

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  Pain, Real, Lying

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• And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

  Alan Watts

  People, World, Want

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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. He is universal by virtue of the inseparability of his organism from the cosmos. He is unique in that he is just this organism and not any stereotype of role, class, or identity assumed for the convenience of social communication.

  Alan Watts

  Communication, Unique, Men

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

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• It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

  Alan Watts

  Important, Desire

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.

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  Lonely, Feelings, Littles

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

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• The source of all light is in the eye.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Light, Source

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