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    Alan W. Watts
    “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: buddhism, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, tao, taoism, theology, zen
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    Alan W. Watts
    “We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom
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    Alan W. Watts
    “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.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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    Alan W. 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.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: life, play, work
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    Alan W. Watts
    “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
    ― Alan Watts
    tags: process, time
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    Alan W. Watts
    “To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts
    tags: faith, freedom, trust
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    Alan W. Watts
    “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.”
    ― Alan Watts
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    Alan W. Watts
    “When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.”
    ― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen
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