Alan Watts

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Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision.

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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can’t be said.

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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.

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If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself – so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

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The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world.

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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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You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

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No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

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Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.

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People can’t be talked out of illusions.

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It’s better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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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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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

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