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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.
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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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The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.
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Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
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The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.
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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 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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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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