Alan Watts Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Laughter Quotes

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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You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this Universe. You didn't come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean.

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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

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You can't make love without art.

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...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

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If we are unduly absorbed in improving our lives we may forget altogether to live them.

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If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

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For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

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To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

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By going out of your mind, you come to your senses

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But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

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Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

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Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

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Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

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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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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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And the more you become aware of the unknown self - if you become aware of it - the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is.

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Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

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