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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
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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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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.
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And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.
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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
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In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain it only indicates.
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