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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
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We have a strange anxiety in us that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
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In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain it only indicates.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?
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What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
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I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.
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I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
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Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.
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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.
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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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To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity — it's the same thing!
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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
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You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.
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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
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The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
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Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.
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