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A paradox is only a truth standing on its head to attract attention.
Alan Watts
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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
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Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
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We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
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A scholar tries to learn something everyday a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
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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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The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
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No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.
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Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.
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The menu is not the meal.
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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
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How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
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The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
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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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If a flower had a God it would not be a transcendental flower but a field.
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done it's just doing it.
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One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
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