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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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But we must not suffer over the suffering.
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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
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Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.
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You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
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... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
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I too realize that the less I preach the more likely I am to be heard.
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Duality is always secretly unity.
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To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.
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Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.
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One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
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LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.
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The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
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But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.
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