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A fan page echoing the voice of Alan Watts. Tao, consciousness, the dance of being.
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You are a function of what the whole universe is doing.
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Just as nothing or organism exists on its own, it does not act on its own. The total interrelationship between all things.
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One of the highest pleasures is to be more or less unconscious of one’s own existence, to be absorbed in sights, sounds, places, and people.
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Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
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It is your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy yourselves.
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The art of living.. is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
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Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.
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Life is like music for its own sake! We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
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The more it changes, the more it is same. Change is in some ways an illusion, for we are always at a point of uncertainty where any future can occur.
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The menu is not the meal.
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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality & lives in a world of illusion.
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We belong in this world. We didn't arrive here from somewhere else, we're not tourists in the universe—we're expressions of it.
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If you try to hold on to life, you lose it. You can't hold your breath and stay alive; it becomes extremely uncomfortable to hold your breath. And so in exactly the same way, it becomes extremely uncomfortable to spend all your time holding on to your life.
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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.
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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.
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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves
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America’s reputation for materialism is unfounded.. Pleasures are not material but symbols for pleasure—attractively packaged, but inferior in content.
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If I like Alan Watts, who else would I enjoy listening to?
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