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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.
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Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
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You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
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Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.
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Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.
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Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
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