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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
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...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
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The Highest to which people can attain is wonder and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it there is the limit.
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We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
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Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.
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Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
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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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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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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
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Running away from fear is fear fighting pain is pain trying to be brave is being scared
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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
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When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.
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Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.
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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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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.
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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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I owe my solitude to other people.
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The source of all light is in the eye.
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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
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There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.
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