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Alan Watts Quotes - Page 19

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Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

Sex, Teenager, Adults

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks.

Two, Space, Risk

You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping.

Jumping, Laughing, Creeps

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

America, People, United States

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Buddhism, Law, Ideas

The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Sex, Animal, Compassion

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.

Inspirational, Believe, Parent

Someone once described “Christian Secularism” as the assumption that there is nothing at all to life except a pilgrimage between the maternity ward and the crematorium, and that it is within that span that Christian concern must be exercised because that is all there is.

Maternity, Happens

"Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969".

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Religion, Whole, Department

Alan Watts (1999). “Buddhism the Religion of No-Religion”, p.8, Tuttle Publishing

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

Philosophy, Flower, Eagles

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.18, Souvenir Press

The role of the Guru is to show the person that he already has what he is looking for.

Roles, Guru, Shows

When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point.

Dance, Journey, Play

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

The sound of the rain needs no translation. In music one doesn't make the end of the composition the point of the composition... Same way in dancing, you don't aim at one particular spot in the room... The whole point of dancing is the dance.

Rain, Dancing, Sound

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Peace, War, Principles

I have no other self than the totality of the things of which I am aware.

Self, Totality

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Truth, Lying, Heart

Alan W. Watts, Daniel Pinchbeck (2013). “The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness”, p.38, New World Library

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

Long, Effort, Mind

Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say "But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it." Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: "I want something more", because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it.

Spiritual, Want Something, Greed

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Education, Learning, Buddhism

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Differentiation, Happens

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Inspiring, Lying, Eye

Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.5, Souvenir Press

Cows scream louder than carrots.

Cows, Vegan, Scream

I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.

Lying, Games, Plot

"The Two Hands of God : The Myths of Polarity" by Alan Watts, (p. 29), 1963.

...for since there is no real 'way' to sartori, the way you are following makes very little difference.

Real, Differences, Littles

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Ocean, Cosmos, Whole

Alan Watts (1999). “The Tao of Philosophy”, p.28, Tuttle Publishing

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