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Alan Watts

06-Jan-1915

United States

Writer

Alan Watts was a famous British philosopher, author and speaker, best known for his interpretation of the Eastern philosophy of Western audiences. Born to Christian parents in England, he became interested in Buddhism while attending King's School, Canterbury. Later, he became a member of the Buddhist Lodge, where he met many scholars and spiritual masters, helping him shape his ideas. He was a progressive writer and began writing at the age of fourteen. Many of his early works were published in the Lodge journal. At the age of twenty-three, he moved to the USA, where he first received training under a Zen master, but left before being ordained. He then studied Christian scriptures and worked as a priest in Chicago for six years before leaving San Francisco to pursue a career in education. At the same time, he began giving speeches on Oriental philosophy and soon appealed to a wider audience both at home and abroad. In addition to writing more than 25 books, he also left a library of almost 400 lectures, which is still in great demand

QUOTES BY Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

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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.

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

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There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

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Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.

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But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.