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Alan Watts Quotes

Biography: Alan Watts is known for popularizing Eastern philosophy for Western au... more Biography: Alan Watts is known for popularizing Eastern philosophy for Western audiences. He was a British writer, speaker, and self-styled "philosophical entertainer," who distilled complex topics from Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism into accessible concepts. Watts authored over 25 books and numerous essays, contributing significantly to the 1960s counterculture movement. less

"You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago."

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"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."

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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

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"We are the universe looking at itself."

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"Faith is the daring of the soul to go."

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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously."

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"Every individual is a unique manifestation."

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"The source of all light is in the eye."

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"You can only be afraid of what you think."

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus."

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"No amount of anxiety makes any difference."

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"The meaning of life is just to be alive."

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"Belief clings, but faith lets go."

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"Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it."

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"Each one of us is a unique event in the universe."

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