Alan Watts Quotes
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
[The Present]
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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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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
[Religion]
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