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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.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.
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You are the universe experiencing itself.
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What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
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Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
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Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.
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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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At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a problem of it.
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We do not come into this world we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean waves, the universe peoples. Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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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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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
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Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?
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To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.
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Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
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How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
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Black implies white self implies other
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