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• If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Games, Matter

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

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• Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.

  Alan Watts

  Stars, Science, Men

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• We usually don't look. We overlook.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Journey, Looks

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• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Music, Symphony

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• The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

  Alan Watts

  Humor, Deep Thought, Goes On

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• We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

  Alan Watts

  Talking, Listening, Ordinary

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• Everything is perpetually becoming new.

  Alan Watts

  Change, Becoming, Becoming New

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

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• Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

  Alan Watts

  Illusion

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• When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

  Alan Watts

  Mind, Religion, Looks

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

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• What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

  Alan Watts

  Sleep, Wake Up, Gone

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• Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Forever, Gone

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• What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

  Alan Watts

  Real, Ocean, Puppets

  "Tao of Philosophy".

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• It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt

  Alan Watts

  Dance, God, Sports

  Alan Watts (1997). “Zen and the Beat Way”

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• Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.

  Alan Watts

  Frustration, Self, Perfect

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• A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
  whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

  Alan Watts

  Gold, Use, Coins

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.4, New World Library

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• You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

  Alan Watts

  Bangs, Puppets, Ends

  "The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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• You have seen that the universe is at root a magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate "you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that come and go so that the vision is forever new.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

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• The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

  Alan Watts

  Light, Hands, Darkness

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

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• Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Technology, Men

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

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• The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

  Alan Watts

  Expression, Games, People

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• Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Peace, Stars

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• We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

  Alan Watts

  Past, Puppets, Driven

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

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• The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

  Alan Watts

  Independent, Knowing, Ego

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.10, Souvenir Press

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• Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Art, Animal

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.7, Souvenir Press

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