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Alan Watts Quote: “You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”

51. “You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”

Alan Watts Quote: “The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.”

52. “The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn’t contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”

53. “Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.”

Alan Watts Quote: “How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain, can experience itself as anything less than a god.”

54. “How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain, can experience itself as anything less than a god.”

Alan Watts Quote: “But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.”

55. “But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.”

56. “Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.”

Alan Watts Quote: “But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.”

57. “But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.”

Alan Watts Quote: “You do not need to control the rain if you can control your mind. If you get wet it is only your mind that makes you think it’s uncomfortable to be wet.”

58. “You do not need to control the rain if you can control your mind. If you get wet it is only your mind that makes you think it’s uncomfortable to be wet.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”

59. “Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.”

Alan Watts Quote: “To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”

60. “To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Zen emphasizes immediate action. When anything is to be done, it should be done immediately without thinking it over in advance.”

61. “Zen emphasizes immediate action. When anything is to be done, it should be done immediately without thinking it over in advance.”

Alan Watts Quote: “We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.”

62. “We are really stuck with ourselves, and our attempts to reject or to accept are equally fruitless, for they fail to reach that inaccessible center of our selfhood which is trying to do the accepting or the rejecting.”

Alan Watts Quote: “To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn’t fixed.”

63. “To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn’t fixed.”

Alan Watts Quote: “We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness.”

64. “We do not really want continuity, but rather a present experience of total happiness.”

Alan Watts Quote: “If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To “have” running water you must let go of it and let it run. The same is true of life and of God. The.”

65. “If you try to capture running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand it and that you will always be disappointed, for in the bucket the water does not run. To “have” running water you must let go of it and let it run. The same is true of life and of God. The.”

Alan Watts Quote: “No one wants to be loved out of a sense of duty.”

66. “No one wants to be loved out of a sense of duty.”

Alan Watts Quote: “The energy and material which we have all squandered on making war since even 1914 could have warmed, fed, and clothed everyone on Earth, but we go about this atrocious squandering in the name of such immaterial and irrelevant fantasies as religion, honor, ideology, progress, racial purity, and patriotism – the last being not love of one’s country but of the idea of one’s country.”

67. “The energy and material which we have all squandered on making war since even 1914 could have warmed, fed, and clothed everyone on Earth, but we go about this atrocious squandering in the name of such immaterial and irrelevant fantasies as religion, honor, ideology, progress, racial purity, and patriotism – the last being not love of one’s country but of the idea of one’s country.”

Alan Watts Quote: “For when we fail to see that our life is change, we set ourselves against ourselves and become like Ouroboros, the misguided snake, who tries to eat his own tail. Ouroboros is the perennial symbol of all vicious circles, of every attempt to split our being asunder and make one part conquer the other.”

68. “For when we fail to see that our life is change, we set ourselves against ourselves and become like Ouroboros, the misguided snake, who tries to eat his own tail. Ouroboros is the perennial symbol of all vicious circles, of every attempt to split our being asunder and make one part conquer the other.”

Alan Watts Quote: “When you get the message, it’s time to hang up the phone.”

69. “When you get the message, it’s time to hang up the phone.”

Alan Watts Quote: “The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find one better than the last. It finds nothing good, because there is nothing which it really tastes.”

70. “The divided mind comes to the dinner table and pecks at one dish after another, rushing on without digesting anything to find one better than the last. It finds nothing good, because there is nothing which it really tastes.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect. Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”

71. “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way, like the problem of cause and effect. Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness – an act of trust in the unknown. An.”

72. “Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, open-ness – an act of trust in the unknown. An.”

Alan Watts Quote: “We can hardly begin to consider this problem unless it is clear that the craving for security is itself a pain and a contradiction, and that the more we pursue it, the more painful it becomes.”

73. “We can hardly begin to consider this problem unless it is clear that the craving for security is itself a pain and a contradiction, and that the more we pursue it, the more painful it becomes.”

Alan Watts Quote: “My sense of kinship with this world is not only with its obviously sympathetic and and beautiful aspects, but also with the horrendous and strange. For I have found that the monstrous and inhuman aspects of fish and insects and reptiles are not so much in them as in me. They are external embodiments of my natural creeps and shudders at the thought of pain and death.”

74. “My sense of kinship with this world is not only with its obviously sympathetic and and beautiful aspects, but also with the horrendous and strange. For I have found that the monstrous and inhuman aspects of fish and insects and reptiles are not so much in them as in me. They are external embodiments of my natural creeps and shudders at the thought of pain and death.”

Alan Watts Quote: “When someone says, “Time to stop now!” he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We.”

75. “When someone says, “Time to stop now!” he is in a panic because he has had nothing to eat yet, and wants more and more time to go on eating money, ever hopeful of satisfaction around the corner. We.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Moreover, there is no “unconscious” mind distinct from the conscious, for the “unconscious” mind is conscious, though not of itself, just as the eyes see but do not see themselves.”

76. “Moreover, there is no “unconscious” mind distinct from the conscious, for the “unconscious” mind is conscious, though not of itself, just as the eyes see but do not see themselves.”

Alan Watts Quote: “Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead.”

77. “Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead.”

Alan Watts Quote: “A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism.”

78. “A Christianity which is not basically mystical must become either a political ideology or a mindless fundamentalism.”

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