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Alan Watts Quotes

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live Picture Quote #1

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever Picture Quote #1

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination Picture Quote #1

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere Picture Quote #1

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware Picture Quote #1

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command Picture Quote #1

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft Picture Quote #1

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers Picture Quote #1

And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom Picture Quote #1

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart Picture Quote #1

We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat Picture Quote #1

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase-oddly enough-to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization Picture Quote #1

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To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself Picture Quote #1

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes Picture Quote #1

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind Picture Quote #1

This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana Picture Quote #1

To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam Picture Quote #1

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now Picture Quote #1

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All I’m saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals Picture Quote #1

The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists Picture Quote #1

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it Picture Quote #1

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself Picture Quote #1

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe Picture Quote #1

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment Picture Quote #1

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted Picture Quote #1

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves Picture Quote #1

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So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live (Alan Watts Quotes) Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever (Alan Watts Quotes) The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination (Alan Watts Quotes) For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere (Alan Watts Quotes) I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware (Alan Watts Quotes) Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command (Alan Watts Quotes) A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft (Alan Watts Quotes) We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers (Alan Watts Quotes) And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom (Alan Watts Quotes) Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart (Alan Watts Quotes) We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat (Alan Watts Quotes) For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase-oddly enough-to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization (Alan Watts Quotes) To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself (Alan Watts Quotes) The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes (Alan Watts Quotes) The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind (Alan Watts Quotes) This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana (Alan Watts Quotes) To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam (Alan Watts Quotes) Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now (Alan Watts Quotes) All I’m saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals (Alan Watts Quotes) The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists (Alan Watts Quotes) And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on (Alan Watts Quotes) 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 (Alan Watts Quotes) Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it (Alan Watts Quotes) So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself (Alan Watts Quotes) Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe (Alan Watts Quotes) The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance (Alan Watts Quotes) 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 (Alan Watts Quotes) Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment (Alan Watts Quotes) A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted (Alan Watts Quotes) We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves (Alan Watts Quotes)

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