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The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.
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When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
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Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.
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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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When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, I am all this! There is simply all this.
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done it's just doing it.
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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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