Alan Watts Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

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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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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.

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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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When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

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

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Do you see yourself as a victim of the world, or do you see yourself as the world?

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What would you do if money was no object?

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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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There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.

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Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

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But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

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By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

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We see what we believe rather than what we see.

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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

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Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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

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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

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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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