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Alan Watts

1915 - 1973

American Writer and Philosopher

Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled “philosophical entertainer”, known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had

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Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.

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Human desire tends to be insatiable.

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I owe my solitude to other people.

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When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

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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.

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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Alan Watts

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

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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.

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Alan Watts

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.

Faith Float Freedom Grab Relaxation Swim Trust Water Yourself

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

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Alan Watts

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Experience Mystery Problem Reality Solution

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Alan Wilson Watts was a British and American writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer", known for interpreting and popularising Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience

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