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Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
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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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Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.
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To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.
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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
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It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
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What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
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The further and further we look out with our telescopes and the further and further we look in with our microscopes, the larger and larger and smaller and smaller the universe becomes in order to escape the investigation because we are the universe looking at itself.
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The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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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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It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
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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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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
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In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done it's just doing it.
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