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Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.
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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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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation.
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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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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
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Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
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Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.
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Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or no fuss.
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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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The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.
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...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.
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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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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
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There is no coming toward it or going away from it it is, and you are it.
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