Nirvana is where you are, provided you don't object to it. Alan Watts More Quotes by Alan Watts More Quotes From Alan Watts 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 division together two And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts skins body kind For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process. Alan Watts collaboration real trying To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. Alan Watts conventions deceived inspiring For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method. Alan Watts method form overcoming ... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). Alan Watts arithmetic banking mathematics 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. Alan Watts parent inspirational believe I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish. Alan Watts emotion want people Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once. Alan Watts deceiving feelings thinking You can't get wet from the word 'water.' Alan Watts wet water 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 awakening mind mean We usually don't look. We overlook. Alan Watts journey spiritual looks People become concerned with being more humble than other people. Alan Watts concerned humble people The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it. Alan Watts spirituality self may To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely with this universe. You feel profoundly rooted in it and connected with it. You feel, in other words, that the whole energy, which expresses itself in the galaxies, is intimate. It is not something to which you are a stranger, but it is that with which you, whatever it is, are intimately bound up. That in your seeing, your hearing, your talking, your thinking, your moving, you express that which it is that moves the sun and other stars. Alan Watts stars moving thinking Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content. Alan Watts materials pleasure inspirational You find out that the universe is a system that creeps up on itself and says 'Boo' and then laughs at itself for jumping. Alan Watts creeps jumping laughing You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. Alan Watts bangs bigs inspiring Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. Alan Watts real paper book Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time. Alan Watts confused purpose inspiring
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