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"As the ocean 'waves', the universe 'peoples.'"
As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated "egos" inside bags of skin.
- Alan Watts
"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean."
You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
- Alan Watts
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- Alan Watts
"a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment."
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
- Alan Watts
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In the words of Alan Watts:
"...to watch the sun sink behind a flower-clad hill, to wander on and on in a huge forest without thought of return, to stand upon the shore and gaze after a boat that disappears behind distant islands, to contemplate the flight of wild geese seen and lost among the clouds... When the vision is the sudden perception of something mysterious and strange, hinting at an unknown never to be discovered..."
The Wisdom of Insecurity
The Wisdom of Insecurity
By Alan W. Watts
Copyright 1968
The Spirit of Zen
The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East
By Alan W. Watts
Copyright 1958
The Way of Zen
The Way of Zen
By Alan W. Watts
Copyright 1957
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan Watts
Copyright 1989
(Original edition: 1960-something)
