Alan Watts

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. ↗

— Alan Watts

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Saints need sinners. ↗

— Alan Watts

#saints #sinners

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. ↗

— Alan Watts

#difficulty #god #idea #implausible #incredible

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. ↗

— Alan Watts

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So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. ↗

— Alan Watts

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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. ↗

— Alan Watts

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And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. ↗

— Alan Watts

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. ↗

— Alan Watts

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I owe my solitude to other people. ↗

— Alan Watts

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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. ↗

— Alan Watts

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