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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
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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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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Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
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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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You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.
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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or no fuss.
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Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.
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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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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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Courage is the goal of cowards.
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You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.
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Buddha's doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent...this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering.
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