Tag: Alan Watts
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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts
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The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
Alan Watts
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts
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You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts
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The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
Alan Watts
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Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
Alan Watts
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
Alan Watts
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
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The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Alan Watts
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I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts