Alan Watts Quotes, Safety Quotes, Painful Quotes

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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We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

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No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

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There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

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When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

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What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

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

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The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

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What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

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We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

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I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

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It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

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We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

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We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our lives. As a consequence, we are at war within ourselves. The brain desiring things which the body does not want, and the body desiring things which the brain does not allow; the brain giving directions which the body will not follow, and the body giving impulses which the brain cannot

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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.

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Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

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