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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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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.
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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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If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.
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When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.
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If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
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Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.
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What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
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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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If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly bring about the greening of America. The idea of 'greening' involves color, flowering, freshness of spring, and, above all, respect for what is organic and vegetative as distinct from the mechanical and metallic.
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Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
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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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Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.
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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.
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The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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