Tag: Alan Watts
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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
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it’s just doing it.
Alan Watts
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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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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts
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But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.
Alan Watts
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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
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And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts