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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
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You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.
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Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.
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The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.
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If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
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The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.
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The only serious side-effect of # marijuana is that you might get arrested.
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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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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
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The Universe is the game of the self, which plays hide and seek forever and ever.
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Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
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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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LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.
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Black implies white self implies other
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How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?
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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 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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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
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We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
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For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
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