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Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

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

Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be.

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

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.

Alan Watts
Mean, Mind, Awakening

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