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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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For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
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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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Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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You are the universe experiencing itself.
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The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
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Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
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I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.
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The mind's the standard of the man.
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We do not come into this world we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.
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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?
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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
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Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.
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What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.
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The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
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It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about I.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.
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