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Alan Watts Inspirational Quotes (431)

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If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
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When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.
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We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
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The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
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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.
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Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
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Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
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Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
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Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.
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Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.
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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.
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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
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Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.
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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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The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
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Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
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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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If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
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The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
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If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.
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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
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By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
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