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Anglican Priest Inspirational Quotes (1741)

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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.
Alan Watts
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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
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan Watts
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Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
Alan Watts
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...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Alan Watts
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Alan Watts
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Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan Watts
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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
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It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
Alan Watts
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The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
Alan Watts
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The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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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
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan Watts
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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
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The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.
Alan Watts
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Alan Watts
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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
Alan Watts
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The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
Alan Watts
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