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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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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.
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
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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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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.
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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
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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.
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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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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.
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Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
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Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.
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Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
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You are the universe experiencing itself.
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this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.
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Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
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Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.
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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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