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I owe my solitude to other people.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Other Owe People Solitude

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So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Able Act Being Beings Changing Delivered Liberated Preaching Saves Sermons Showing Stop Them

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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Accumulate Because Enjoy Great How Imagination Know Many Money Only People Poverty Reason Think Vast Wealth

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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Altogether Exists External External World Independently Pretend See Try Us World You

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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

Topics: Although Between Bodies Cannot Certain Differentiate Environment Except Exist Inside Kind Natural Natural Environment Our Outside Skin

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Doing Done Everything How Just Knowing Not Knowing Omnipotence

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

~Alan Watts

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Always Appear Find Paradoxes Particularly Study Them Things Will Writings You Zen

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Arranged Badly Between Comparisons Constellations Looking Make Night Nor Out Right Right And Wrong Stars Things Universe Well Wrong

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

~Alan Watts

Topics: Anything Being Brain Ears Enchanted Experience Eyes Fabulous God How Instruments Itself Jewels Less Musical Nerves Possible Sensitive Than

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 6th, 1915

Died: November 16th, 1973

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