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“Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“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

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
― Alan Watts

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
― Alan Watts

“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
― Alan Watts

“We can never, never describe all the features of the total situation, not only because every situation is infinitely complex, but also because the total situation is the universe.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support of social unity.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“This is what is called "honor among thieves," for the really dangerous people are those who do not recognize that they are thieves— the unfortunates who play the role of the "good guys" with such blind zeal that they are unconscious of any indebtedness to the "bad guys" who support their status.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“the finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself.”
― D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism