Quotes by Alan Watts

Alan Watts

Alan Watts

English philosopher, priest and writer

Lived from: 1915 - 1973

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 6 january 1915 Died: 16 november 1973

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  • So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
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  • So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
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  • So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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  • Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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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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  • The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
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  • The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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  • The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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  • The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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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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  • To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
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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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  • 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 are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.
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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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