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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
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Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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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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Faith is, above all, openness an act of trust in the unknown.
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