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Alan Watts Inspirational Quotes (431)

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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
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The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.
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If you love a person, you say to that person, Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song.
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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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The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies--and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
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Courage is the goal of cowards.
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People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
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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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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
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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.
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Western religions are more concerned with behavior, doctrine, and belief than with any transformation of the way in which we are aware of ourselves and our world.
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Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
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There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.
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To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.
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You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
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We see what we believe rather than what we see.
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Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
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I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
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Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
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There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
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