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Alan Watts Quotes - Page 14

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Duality is always secretly unity.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Truth, Unity, Duality

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Mean, Mind, Awakening

The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

Cutting, Knives, Fire

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Simplicity, Poverty

Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.84, New World Library

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Unity, Hallucinations, Serious

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.112, New World Library

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Guilt, Mindfulness, May

alan w. watts (1961). “psychotherapy east and west”

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Opposites, Anxiety, Forever

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Trying, World

Thought is a means of concealing Truth.

Mean, Concealing

Alan Watts (1982). “Play to Live: Selected Seminars”

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Faith, States, Openness

Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Cutting, Years, Bangs

"The Nature of Consciousness". Book by Alan Watts, 1960.

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

Inspiring, Faith, Eye

"The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

Differences, Galaxy

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

People, Effort, Ego

All I'm saying is that minerals are just a rudimentary form of consciousness whereas the other people are saying that consciousness is a complicated form of minerals.

People, Complicated, Consciousness

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Humble, People, Concerned

Alan Watts (2010). “Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation”, p.43, New World Library

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

Giving, Community, Trying

"Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

Mouths, Enough, Bigs

Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Ego, Skins, Bags

Sexual love is a troubled and problematic relationship in cultures where there is a strong sense of man's separation from nature, especially when the realm of nature is felt to be inferior or contaminated with evil.

Strong, Love Is, Men

Alan W. Watts (2012). “Nature, Man and Woman”, p.11, Vintage

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Powerful, Power, Negative

Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Ideas, World, Incredibles

Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Giving Up, Ideas, Vision

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Would Be, World, Birth

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.61, Souvenir Press

When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events. No winter, no summer. No cold, no heat.

Life, Death, Summer

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