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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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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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Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy. ... I am absolutely amazed to discover myself on this rock ball rotating around a spherical fire. It's a very odd situation. And the more I look at things I cannot get rid of the feeling that existence is quite weird.
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...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security. On the other hand, the more we are forced to admit that we actually live in the real world, the more we feel ignorant, uncertain, and insecure about everything.
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Everything is perpetually becoming new.
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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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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Cows scream louder than carrots.
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If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
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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 meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain it only indicates.
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You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
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Faith is, above all, openness an act of trust in the unknown.
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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
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