We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

Alan Watts

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To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel c... by Alan Watts

To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.

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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowl... by Alan Watts

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

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For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

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The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss.... by Alan Watts

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

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Every explicit duality is an implicit unity. by Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

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Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment.

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Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

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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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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensit... by Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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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.

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They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun.

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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great tele... by Alan Watts

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

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We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.

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A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a f... by Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

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This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

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There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

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