Time
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I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Alan W. Watts
Alan Wilson Watts was an English writer, philosopher, and speaker who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.
He was born in Chislehurst, England, in 1915.
He moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945.
He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
He wrote over 25 books, including The Way of Zen, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, and The Wisdom of Insecurity.
He died in 1973 at the age of 58.
He is considered one of the most influential figures in the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
He was born in Chislehurst, England, in 1915.
He moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945.
He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
He wrote over 25 books, including The Way of Zen, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, and The Wisdom of Insecurity.
He died in 1973 at the age of 58.
He is considered one of the most influential figures in the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
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Life
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The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Wisdom
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Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Time
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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Wisdom
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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.
Life
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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.
Life
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If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.
Faith
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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.
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