1. Alan Watts - “When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.”

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2. Alan Watts - “This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

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3. Alan Watts - “Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”

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4. Alan Watts - “Although profoundly 'inconsequential,' the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.”

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5. Alan Watts - “No work of 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.”

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6. Alan Watts - “The mind's the standard of the man.”

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7. Alan Watts - “... 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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8. Alan Watts - “The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.”

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9. Alan Watts - “Saints need sinners.”

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10. Alan Watts - “But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”

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11. Alan Watts - “We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

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12. Alan Watts - “No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.”

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13. Alan Watts - “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

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14. Alan Watts - “We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”

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15. Alan Watts - “We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.”

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16. Alan Watts - “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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17. Alan Watts - “No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.”

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