Popular Quotes by Alan Wilson Watts

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

  Alan Wilson Watts#Present 71

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• Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Medicine 71

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• The menu is not the meal.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Language 65

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• Our pleasures are not material pleasures but symbols of pleasure attractively packaged but inferior in content.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Capitalism 58

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• Through our eyes the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory of its magnificence.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Self 45

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• Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves but the mirror is distorted. We are perhaps rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Self 43

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• You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain and so on. The system will gobble itself up.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Science 42

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• Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Zen 29

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• This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work realize it is play.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Play 27

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• It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

  Alan Wilson Watts#Reality 26

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